500W 27Mhz RF Amplifier Circuit

The following circuit is the 500W 27Mhz RF Amplifier circuit. The circuit build based MOSFET APT ARF448A, will give you very high gain for signal with frequency of 27MHz.

Schematic Diagram:

Parts List:
C1,C3 = 75-380 pF mica trimmer, ARCO 465
C4-C8 = .01 uF 1 kV disc ceramic
C9,C10 = .1 uF 500V disc ceramic
L1 = 6 uH. 25t #24 ga.enam. 0.5" dia.
L2 = 210 nH. 4t #8 ga. .75" id, 1" long
L4 = 2t #20 PTFE on .5" ferrite bead m=850
Q1 = APT ARF448A
R1 = 25W 5W non-inductive
T1 = Pri: 4t #20 PTFE, Sec: 1t brass tube on 2 hole balun bead. Fair-Rite #2843010302 m=850

High voltage MOSFETs are now available that combine the best practices from the RF world with the economy of the switchmode devices and packaging. They are available in mirror image pairs and the heat spreader of the plastic TO-247 package is connected to the source.

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About RF Amplifier
An RF power amplifier is a type of electronic amplifier which is utilised to convert a low-power radio-frequency signal into a larger signal of significant power, usually for driving the antenna of a transmitter. It is usually optimized to have high efficiency, high output Power (P1dB) compression, good gain, good return loss on the input and output, and optimum heat dissipation.

The basic applications of the RF power amplifier include driving to another high power source, driving a transmitting antenna, microwave heating, and exciting resonant cavity structures. Among these applications, driving transmitter antennas is most well known.
More explanation about power audio amplifier can be found at wikipedia.org

This is a demonstration about 01A RF Amplifier which is build used old tube component to amplify the signal.

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