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Diode ring mixer

A picture says a 1000 words.. this is an ancient mixer on e-bay recently, I have one for experimentation. It…

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Transmission line transformers (TLT)

Worryingly, there are comments here: http://www.eham.net/articles/24502  that are simply wrong, and cause a lot of confusion to people trying to…

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More dielectric constants

Since these are so hard to find, I’m going to record all findings. According to a 1961 document called Plastic-Film-Dielectric…

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More on transmission lines

PTFE has a more constant (!) dielectric constant over a reasonable frequency range (not that the 4 ohms delta of…

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Transmission line calculation tool

Since the steps were too much, this excel file was created. In the spreadsheet, the green values can be entered,…

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Twisted pair transmission line

For constructing transmission lines, coax is useful because it is available in 50 and 75 ohms. For transmission line transformers,…