On 8/18/2010 5:55 AM, Gordon Gibson wrote:
Hi Tentec'ers
1) I recently had a problem with D4& D5 on the low pass filter board
(81592) on my Omni VI (circa Nov92) which in the manual are 1N4007
a previous owner had replaced one of the original diodes with a pair
of MPN3700 in series with a 22pf to earth
The two diodes are the RF switch for the Auxiliary receiver input or
output. The diodes are operated as PIN diodes though 1N4007 are not the
greatest PIN diodes. I suspect yours may be counterfit and ordinary
lower voltage rectifier diodes that won't have the PIN construction and
that makes them more lossy at RF. The MPN3700 is a PIN diode designed
for RF switching and so has less less when open or closed.
The only reason 1N4007 have the PIN construction is that it makes the
1KV inverse voltage rating easier to achieve and that makes it used for
RF switching in cheap circuits, but there is nothing to force makers to
meet the ratings with the intrinsic layer between the P and N layers to
or to keep the junction area small. You could try 1N4007 from a major
supplier, not generic or put the MPN 3700 back. My manual shows a 22 pf
capacitor is proper from the common anodes of D4 and D5 to earth.
You could also check to see if any resistors feeding DC to those diodes
have been changed, the true PIN diode would need less current for decent
coupling than the 1N4007.
However in my wisdom i decided to put it back as in the book to a
pair of 1N4007's this works no problem, however i now find that my S
meter readings are about 2-3 S Points down from when it last worked
correctly!
The 1N4007's seem to be lossy on receive so I wonder if anyone can
recommend replacements
2) Thanks Carl N4PY for your chip to update my Paragon1 to 1.9, It
works superb its great to have band stacking on the Paragon.
73 de Gordon G3ZFZ
gordon@gibson174.plus.com
73, Jerry, K0CQ
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