{"id":25,"date":"2009-11-08T13:34:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T12:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2019-05-08T08:27:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T06:27:16","slug":"a-3cm-solid-state-pa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/?page_id=25","title":{"rendered":"A 3cm solid state PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>10 GHz &#8211; 1Watt PA, made from 14 GHz surplus stuff<\/p>\n<p># use 0805 or 1206 capacitors with low values (10pF or less) with white ceramic (NPO material , low RF losses)<br \/>\n# capacitors are glued with &#8220;Velpon&#8221; ( a Dutch brand) glue, don&#8217;t use cyanoacrilate like &#8220;one second glue&#8221;<br \/>\n# tune for minimum smoke and maximum power with a wooden stick, use eventually a ceramic trimming stick for<br \/>\ndetermining the spots where a capacitor can be placed. ( fast scan for sensitive places)<br \/>\n# a spectrum analyser for this tuning is preferred above a wideband power meter, oscillations can be seen on a analyser<br \/>\nI used a HP141T with 18 GHz plugin and a hp8620 sweeper with 8-12 GHz plugin as signal source<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pe1kxh_3cm_1W_rf.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-660\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pe1kxh_3cm_1W_rf.jpg\" width=\"672\" height=\"733\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pe1kxh_3cm_1W_dc.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-659\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pe1kxh_3cm_1W_dc.jpg\" width=\"672\" height=\"715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pe1kxh_3cm_1W_dc.jpg 672w, https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pe1kxh_3cm_1W_dc-282x300.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthis bias circuit by DB6NT is used (slightly modified)..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/bias_DB6NT.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-658\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/bias_DB6NT.jpg\" width=\"672\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/bias_DB6NT.jpg 672w, https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/bias_DB6NT-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>10 GHz &#8211; 1Watt PA, made from 14 GHz surplus stuff # use 0805 or 1206 capacitors with low values (10pF or less) with white <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/?page_id=25\" title=\"A 3cm solid state PA\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":660,"parent":0,"menu_order":34,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3csg.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}