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Originally Posted by Radio Wrangler
Maybe a little test detector, built tiny for low stray L, into a DC meter. Use a Schottky diode.
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Hi David, I had a similar thought! I have a crystal diode pulled from a UHF+ mixer, so I could build it around that. It's gold-plated so perhaps I should offer it in the audiophoolery community?
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Originally Posted by Radio Wrangler
Proving flatness once you get up in frequency becomes, um, interesting.
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As I'm finding out! It must be amazing to have the kit that you have and know how to operate it
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Originally Posted by Radio Wrangler
Just rigging something up at home that will give a reasonable indication to a few hundred MHz takes you a fair way down the path.
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That would be very handy. I'm up for some lecher line experiments at the frequencies higher than this little test oscillator and perhaps up to 1GHz if as a challenge. At the very least, I will learn more about test equipment.
In my last major project, that was the area where I had the most frustration and the most learning, pushing the boundaries of my test equipment, knowing when a reading was spurious and then deciding what else I could do about it.