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- From: jjw@precipice.chi.il.us (John Welch)
- Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur,sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: IRF 511 as RF Power Amp
- Message-ID: <8975VB1w165w@precipice.chi.il.us>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 11:18:18 CST
- References: <1992Dec13.041936.15826@u.washington.edu>
- Organization: Welch Research, McHenry IL, USA
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- slovell@milton.u.washington.edu (Sherman Lovell) writes:
-
- > In the April '89 QST Doug DeMaw wrote about using
- > the IRF 511 Mosfet as a RF Power amplifier. Wes Hayward then
- > wrote an excellent follow-up article in the Nov '89 QST. I'm
- > wondering if anyone has experimented with these transistors and
- > circuits. Specifically, I'm puzzled by the fact that neither
- > DeMaw nor Hayward seems to have run into trouble with these
- > transistors' considerable input capacitance -- the 511 has about
- > 100 pF and the IRF 530 that Hayward used has about 900pF!
-
- It's simple - they don't actually *build* and *test* those
- designs - they look OK on paper so that's what gets published.
-
- I shouldn't complain about this - if it hadn't been for
- DeMaw's fascinating approach to analog circuits, I'd have never
- designed a Direct Digital Synthesized radio. I suppose I owe him
- much thanks ;-)
-
- 73 de N9JZW / NNN0WY
-