Topband: HMC580 instead of W7IUV preamp

[Mike Waters]

That's amazing. But where did you get it? Mouser is sold out, 390 on order,
but no estimated delivery date.

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com


On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist <
richard at karlquist.com> wrote:

> It might be a lot easier to simply buy this amplifier IC:
>
> http://www.hittite.com/products/view.html/view/HMC580ST89
>
> The specs are close to the W7IUV preamp.
> I mounted one of these ICs on a breadboard and tried it out with a short
> vertical whip and it seemed to work fine.
>