Unanswered Questions
108 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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How do Radio Regulations and Frequency Allocations Apply to an Ionosonde?
An ionosonde is a special HF radio transmitter that periodically transmits a signal that sweeps across a large portion or the entire HF spectrum to identify the propagation of radio signal in the ...
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UHF FM power amplifier design without expensive software
I'm designing a small UHF data transceiver for the 70cm band, based on a Silicon Labs EZRadioPro Si4463 IC. Modulation is FM, 12.5kHz channel step. The concept is similar to SiLabs' AN656 application ...
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Where to find HF channel models or statistics?
When designing a waveform for packet radio usage, it'd be helpful to know a few things, mainly
distribution of coherency bandwidths
distribution of coherency times
Whilst such statistics are ...
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Beyond Maximum Stable Gain of a transistor
I was plotting constant-gain circles on the Smith chart the other day for a potentially unstable RF transistor.
I recently read on-line that for a potentially unstable transistor the maximum gain ...
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Doppler Shift Compensation in Inter Satellite Communication
I am currently doing a project in the area of optical inter-satellite communication (GEO-LEO).
I am using a optical carrier of 281 THz, and the Doppler shift corresponding to it is ±7 GHz. I ...
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Choice of PCB coil design for filter inductor at ca 20 to 400 MHz, 5 W
Looking at the diplexer schematic from this nice question,
I realized this can completely be done in PCB-formed elements (minus the connectors). (As a kind of counter-action to the original question'...
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What causes differences in properties of ferrite cores from same material?
Why are the shapes of the impedance curves different for cores made of the same ferrite material?
The impedance (Z) of an inductor wound on a ferrimagnetic core is:
$$Z=j\omega L_s + R_s = j\omega ...
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Problem with theory of HF detector
I'm currently trying to build my own SWR power Meter. This design is based on the so known HT detector with schottky diode BAS70. For my understanding, and for easy purpose, I'm currently focusing on ...
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Commercial Loopstick Antenna Manufacturers
Not sure this is the right forum for this but I thought I'd give it a shot.
I am an electrical engineer working on a product that needs a loopstick antenna.
I had thought that AM radios were so ...
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Dipole loading coil winding directions?
A single inductive loading coil in a vertical or a pair of loading coils in a dipole are commonly used to match a given total antenna length parameter to a given frequency wavelength (where the ratio ...
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ISS APRS Digipeater with Kam XL and ICOM IC-910H
I am trying to use the ISS APRS digipeater which transmits at 437.55MHz.
Hardware setup consists of the following
ICOM IC-910H.
The transceiver has been connected to a Windows PC running a HAM ...
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How to measure quartz crystal motional parameters using a VNA?
I want to measure quartz crystal motional parameters with a VNA, unfortunately all Google searches I've done have lead me to nothing in concrete. I know how to get an impedance curve and measure the ...
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The whole neighborhood's internet drops when I transmit on 40M
I recently built a vertical. It's 6M radiator, a coil, and 1.2M more of radiator. It sits on my roof, which is metal, and acts as a ground plane (GND from the feedline is connected to it). There is a ...
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Are there any “parrot” repeater software projects out there?
I happened across a discussion on building repeaters for Amateur radio, which lead to looking at GMRS repeaters (because apparently this is a potential source for inexpensive 70 cm Amateur repeaters), ...
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9:1 unun material and power loss
I need to build another 9:1 unun and I start searching for my toroids... (I have build 2-3 something like 4 years ago)...
In parallel I checked on Google about the correct toroid etc so I found 2-3 ...
