19 Feb 2011

10m DSB rig progress (some)

Today I spent a little time on the transmit strip of my 10m DSB transceiver project. I started with the single balanced mixer using a T50-6 (yellow) toroid tuned to 10m, with LO injection from a signal generator and LF via a small audio preamp from an audio generator. For now I used a 1kHz tone to ensure drive levels were OK. Output is currently 20mW pep with 2 small 2N3904 linear stages following the mixer. To reach a useful RF level I therefore need another 20-23dB, easily done in two more stages. This would take me to around 2-3W pep.

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