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Re: [Amps] Measuring IMD in a home workshop

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Subject: Re: [Amps] Measuring IMD in a home workshop
From: "Jeff DePolo" <jd0@broadsci.com>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 17:19:51 -0400
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> My problem regarding two or three tone tests is that my rigs all have
> comparably terrible IMD.  Several Ten Tec rigs, and a JRC 
> NSD-515.  None of
> them have spectacular IMD performance. How do you get around these
> limitations?

Two separate CW transmitters combined with high isolation between the two,
or two separate signal sources combined into an external low-IMD (typically
class A) amplifier used as a driver.

The former is typically the lower-cost solution as high-power low-IM
wideband amplifiers are not cheap, even on the used market.  But for
high-gain solid-state amplifier designs, the latter can be viable from a
cost standpoint when only need a few watts of drive into the DUT is
required.

                                        --- Jeff WN3A


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