GM3SEK's Amateur Radio Technical Notebook

RF Power Amplifiers
The Triode Board PC board for Triode PA control and protection
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The Tetrode Boards PC boards for Tetrode PA control and protection

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Tried and tested solutions

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Power Amplifier Design and Operation

Clean Signals How to set up your speech processor Intermodulation distortion
Effects of screen supply stabilisation

Transistor PA bias circuits

Why most bipolar bias circuits cause non-linearity

Tube PA Design and Construction High Voltage power supplies

Safety by design

PSU Designer software

Accurate, easy to use, and highly recommended! GS35b

Pi/Pi-L network design/analysis spreadsheet NETCALC - an RF network calculator Triode amplifier design program

Blower performance curves

Estimate by Excel spreadsheet

Amplifiers using Russian tubes G2DAF Amplifier

The original articles (for reference only - not recommended for use today)

Sequencing and Relay Switching PTT interface and speed-up circuit for RF relays Simple TX/RX sequencer RFI Filters VHF/UHF harmonic notch filters

FM and UHF-TV interference filters

Sad to say,

The VHF/UHF DX Book

is no longer available
If you're still looking for a copy, set a permanent 'Watch' for the title on ebay.co.uk

VHF/UHF DX
VHF/UHF Long Yagi Workshop VE7BQH Yagi Performance Tables
The 'world standard' benchmarks for Yagi performance on 50MHz, 144MHz and 432MHz. Charts of G/T and Gain versus Boom Length

Stacking Yagis for the Same or Different Bands

DUBUS magazine and DUBUS-Technik books DUBUS Archives 1982-1992

Moonbounce
Corrections and updates Polarization and One-way EME Propagation More EME Contacts with Polarization Rotation W6/PA0ZN's EME/Radio Astronomy/SETI site - includes 432MHz and Above EME Newsletter Archives SM5BSZ's technical pages

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