Showing posts with label 20 meter low pass filter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 20 meter low pass filter. Show all posts

Monday, January 16, 2023

QRP Labs 10W PA (4) -- Designing 20m LC Low Pass Filter

 The circuit for the 20 meter filter for the QRP Labs 10W PA is a scaled version of the 7th order Chebyshev filter for 40 meters, using the same filter table. The component values are given in the schematic.


I do not have 150p NPO capacitors in my stock, So I used 100 pF in parallel with 47 pF.  I used T50-6 cores for the inductors, again with total 300 mW predicted wire and core losses. The LTSPICE predicted filter response is below.

The filter was assembled on a strip of single sided PCB, as shown in the photo below. Click to enlarge.

The full power filter output into a dummy load is shown below.  Click to enlarge. The input voltage is approximately 3.5 Vpp. Frequency is 14.0000 MHz.  Output power is 9.9W.  Gain is about 25 dB.