Passive Band pass filters for home-made TX, RX or transceivers
(between a reversed dioden mixer and a rellay "input of PA"(usually few Volts RF-TX) or "Antenna RX")
The main part of any RIG wich hard to tuning at home without a special equipment .
Can be used as the additional band pass filter between antenna and a cheap receiver .
People say it pass perfect as PreSelector to PCR100, PCR1000 , SDR ...
Dimension is 185x75 mm.
This unit tuned for 160,80,40,30,20,17,15,12,10 m amateurs bands.
Rin=Rout=50Ohm.
Losses are 1-3 dB. It has RF amplifier with frequency compensated gain(10-20dB),
using one medium power RF transistor , and attenuator -20dB.
The operating voltage for instaled relays is 5V .(On the diagram in 5V variante BPF is also must be 5V everywhere - not 12-27!!!)
The typical picture from the screen is for 1,8:3,5:14:18 Mhz.
Passband ripple is abt. 0.5dB inside the band .
The pictures for the other bands are similar - with passband ripple from 0.2 to 1 db typical .
I try to make M=1-2, in this case the best possible for 2 connected coils filters K01=abt.3 and K001=abt.8-10.
K001 is - 40 dB.For instance:Band 3.5 MHz.Band width = 0.3 MHz. With Koo1=8 (M2.41) width
on the level -40 dB will be 2.4MHz.It means +1.2 and -1.2 from central 3.650.
Standart bandwidth is( by level of 0.5-1 db):1,8-2,0:3,5-3,8:7,0-7,2:10,0-10,150:14,0-14,350:18,0-18,2:21,0-21,45:24,8-25,0:28,0-29,7.
By the level -40 dB it is good sample of calculation above in description.This is maximum what possible theoreticaly for 2 LC filters.
Attenuation is approx. 2 dB - depending on band and bandwidth.
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To USA, Canada, UK, Japan, Australia - 10-14 days, 14-21 days to Germany/France.
In the way to Italy is always very different in time.
The very typical view (can be a different coils typŠµ):