Collins has used negative rf feedback over the tube final and driver stages
for years. More of this in W6SAIs RADIO HANDBOOKs. The SB 220 har rf feed:
the grid capacitors and grid to anode capacitances are used as a rf voltage
divider. Look also into the old 1954 SINGLE SIDEBAND PRINCIPLES AND CIRCUITS
by PAPPENFUSS et al if it is still avaiable, who knows?
Prosit de Hans SM5KI
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>Från: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>
>Till: <amps@contesting.com>, "jeff millar" <jeff@wa1hco.mv.com>
>Ämne: Re: [AMPS] Linearizing Linears, feedback or feedforward
>Datum: tis 26 sep 2000 05.17
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>
>> We know that negative feedback in audio amplifiers improves linearity and
>> reduces distortion. What would it take to improve RF linears with
>> feedback? In thinking about it for a bit (not enough time, no doubt). It
>> seems that RF feedback will introduce lots of problems with stability
>> because the feedback will vary in phase over frequency...producing an
>> oscillator. Linearizing the envelop might improve things, but it doesn't
>> do anything about the phase component...might even worsen it.
>
>Grounded grid amplifiers already have a very high level of almost
>perfect negative feedback as long as the grid is properly grounded.
>
>Some tubes have long grid leads that add some amount of
>uncontrolled feedback, and some amplifiers add some uncontrolled
>feedback through intentional "floating" of the control grid through
>low value capacitors.
>
>> In the commercial world, broadband, low IMD amplifiers use feed forward
>> techniques...precompensate the input to produce a clean output. The
>> principle seems clear but how it applies to a bandswitched amp and how a
>> ham with just a grid dipper can set it up seems murky.
>
>You can add negative feedback to a grid driven tetrode with the
>addition of an unbypassed resistor in the cathode.
>
>
>73, Tom W8JI
>w8ji@contesting.com
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