To improve the range of choices, could the non-linearity introduced by the
core be improved by a feedback system ? The Amps archives have ideas which
might bear more fruit with modern devices.
I dare say feedback will need to be handled differently on each band or
sub-band, but it could save cost, weight, volume and possibly end up with a
better amplifier in the long run.
Perhaps the goal of 160 to 10 (6=dream?) might have be managed in more than
one lump.
David
G3UNA
>
> Both iron powder and ferrite cores have to be driven at pretty low
> levels to keep nonlinearity effects in the green range. But then, at RF
> anyway they have to be driven pretty low to keep them from overheating!
> At the flux density levels you can safely put into a core in the upper
> HF range, be it iron powder or ferrite, without exceeding a manageable
> loss, the distortion from nonlinearity will be acceptable in almost all
> cases.
> >
> Manfred.
>
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