[NLRS] GaFET question

[Barry VE4MA]

It will work fine if the matching network will handle the impedance changes. 
Some amps like the ARR ones are very sensitive to the device and only work 
well with the 1302

Barry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Cox, N0UK" <chrisc at BritishCarAndDriver.Com>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [NLRS] GaFET question


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>
> The ATF101346 will work just fine - probably.  It has slightly higher gain 
> and so may be more unstable at UHF - but my experience is that it'll 
> probbaly work fine.  The only other consideration is that the gate lead is 
> about 1cm long on the MGF-1302 whereas it's only about 5mm long on the 
> other two devices.
>
> If you're soldering to a PCB then it probably won't matter, however, if 
> you're replacing a device that was in a dead-bug layout (good for 
> low-loss) then you may need to lengthen the gate wiring.
>
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