[ARC5] Selectivity improvement in ARC-5 receivers.

Kenneth G. Gordon kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Mon Jun 2 11:55:57 EDT 2014


On 2 Jun 2014 at 6:32, Bruce Long wrote:

> The rejection slope (dB/octave) of a coupled bandpass filter does not depend
> upon the filter center frequency in Hz but rather by the offset frequency (
> distance from the filter center frequency) divided by the filter bandwidth.
> 
> Thus if you have a bandpass filter with a bandwidth of 10 kHz ( at any center
> frequency) and you are measuring the rejection at an offset frequency of 60 Khz
> ( ie 6 Octaves) you will be x dB down.

Thanks, Bruce.

My ancient memory banks have unused sections which are full of cobwebs 
and must be cleaned out once in a while. :-)

Ken W7EKB


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