Sunday, July 24, 2011

5W / 150MHz RF Amplifier Circuit

5W / 150Mhz RF Amplifier Circuit diagram


This is a 5W -150MHz RF amplifier circuit. It applies the MRF123 TMOSFET. The MRF123 is a very high gain FET which potentially unstable at both VHF and UHF frequencies, so the 68 Ohm input loading resistor has been used to enhance the stability. This RF amplifier has a gain of 14 dB and a drain effeciency of 55%.

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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