DEVELOPMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRONICALLY TUNED, DECADE-BANDWIDTH RECEIVER.

Abstract

Efforts concerned a program to develop an experimental model of a tunable receiver operating between 300 and 3000 mc. The resulting receiver can be either manually tuned across its range or electronically swept over sectors ranging from 2 mc to the full decade bandwidth at any rate up to 100 cps. The receiver has a sensitivity of better than -90 dbm over its full operating range, a saturation level of +10 dbm, an instantaneous 3-db bandwidth of 2.05 mc and a 60-db bandwidth of 10 mc--all satisfying the original specification. The essentially solid-state receiver basically consists of a low-pass input filter, upconverter and associated X-band pump circuit, bandpass filter, tunnel-diode amplifier, downconverter, and I-F amplifier-detector. Experience gained during the program showed that it is practical to use the same techniques for the 30- to 300-mc frequency range. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0474422

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  • Beryl Barber

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplifiers
  • Bandpass Filters
  • Bandwidth
  • Detectors
  • Diodes
  • Filters
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Bands
  • Saturation
  • Sensitivity
  • Specifications
  • Tunnel Diodes
  • X Band

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  • Electronics Engineering

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  • Microelectronics