The BFR106 shows Vceo as just 16v. That is kind of low for our work. At 1/2 watt into a 50 ohm load, The voltage van swing +/- 7 volts, which is about 14 volts. We are almost at the breakdown point. How has your experience been??
On Sat, 15 Sep 2018, 23:04 Warren Allgyer, <allgyer@...> wrote:
I don't have a lot of experience in this but my gut tells me pushing interstage gains to the 1 dB compression point is too much. When I did that with the MMIC boards the IMD jumped dramatically at even 0.5 dB compression and was borderline unacceptable at 1.0 dB. 1 dB compression, in my experience, generally makes my goal of -30 dBc third/fifth order IMD unattainable. I would not plan for any measurable compression for interstage blocks..... but that is me.
