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- Subject: Re: IC-706 Service Manuals are HERE!!!
- From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman)
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- Ok, here's the computer simulation info I promised. I modeled
- the 60 MHz to 200 MHz bandpass response. To say the least, it
- sucked rocks. There are two poles, one at about 136 MHz and the
- other at about 160.5 MHz. Response is nice and flat from 60 MHz
- to 120 MHz with less than 4 db of ripple, but it takes a dive from
- there. In the 130 MHz to 170 MHz range, the loss is at least 36 db,
- rising back to only 30 db at 200 MHz. Image rejection at 280 MHz
- is only 26 db.
-
- Now the ideal fix is to change the inductors so that L49 is 27nH,
- L40 is 22 nH, and change C152 to 30pF. That gives a lovely passband
- across 60 MHz to 200 MHz, and gives strong image rejection at 280 MHz
- and up, with one of the nulls falling right on that frequency. The
- factory ought to do that.
-
- Unfortunately, examination shows these coils aren't easy to modify.
- So there's another way that still gives a pretty good response. If
- you remove C53 and C153, you'll get full response, though with a dip
- of 4 db in the 160 MHz to 180 MHz range, and only 26 db of image
- rejection at 280 MHz. But if you increase the value of C152 to 32pF
- by tacking the removed C153 across it, response flattens and tightens
- in the upper VHF range, and image rejection improves to 31 db at 280 MHz.
- That's about as good as we're going to get without replacing L49 and L40
- and C152 with the recomended values.
-
- Here's the ARRL Radio Designer file for the filter.
-
- **************************************************
- *ARRL Radio Designer v1.0
- *IC-706 60 MHz to 200 MHz bandpass filter
- * Gary Coffman KE4ZV 1/18/96
- **************************************************
-
- Blk
- **Component data inductors
-
- L22:1.2uH
- L49:82nH ;ideal 27nH
- L40:68nH ;ideal 22nH
- L25:0.15uH
- L26:0.18uH
- L27:1.2uH
-
- **Component data capacitors
-
- C51:.001uF
- C154:20pF
- C153:0pF ;was 12pF
- C152:32pF ;was 20pF
- C53:0pF ;was 20pF
- C151:24pF
- C52:18pF
- C54:220pF
- C55:22pF
- C56:82pF
- C57:27pF
-
- **Node list
-
- IND 1 0 L=L22
- CAP 1 2 C=C51
- CAP 2 0 C=C154
- IND 2 3 L=L49
- CAP 2 3 C=C153
- CAP 3 0 C=C152
- IND 3 4 L=L40
- CAP 3 4 C=C53
- CAP 4 0 C=C52
- CAP 4 5 C=C151
- CAP 5 6 C=C54
- IND 6 0 L=L25
- CAP 5 7 C=C55
- CAP 7 8 C=C56
- IND 8 0 L=L26
- CAP 7 9 C=C57
- IND 9 0 L=L27
- BPF:2POR 1 9
-
- END
-
- **Frequency block
-
- FREQ
- ESTP 50MHz 300MHz 511
- END
- **********************
-
- Gary
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