<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div>The PC Board is the easy part.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559347"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559343">Who installs that microscopic little thing?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559361"><br></div><div>Virtually has to be done by machine.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559342"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559345"><span>Kent WA5VJB</span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559341"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559311" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559310"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559309"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559337"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559339" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station <ground-station@lists.openresearch.institute><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station <ground-station@lists.openresearch.institute> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, April 24, 2018 10:19 AM<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559365"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559364">Subject:</span></b> [Ground-station] 5GHz amplifiers<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559308"><br><div id="yiv1859146308"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559307">Julian KF4MOT recommended (#5ghz_rf on Slack) looking at this amplifier:<br><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.skyworksinc.com/Product/4074/SKY66288-11" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559334">http://www.skyworksinc.com/Product/4074/SKY66288-11</a><br clear="all"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559306"><div class="yiv1859146308gmail_signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559305"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559304"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559303"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559302"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559301"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559300"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524415181240_559299"><br>so I bought 10 of them. I would like to lay out a board for them and get them up and running and useful for our uplink. <br><br>Mike Seguin, John Petrich, Chuck Clark, Kent Britain, and several others have extensive experience here and have results for a PCB filter among other things necessary for a successful "get a typical SDR signal heard loud and clear" mission. <br><br>What can I do to help get this board built? <br><br>I have a circuit printer, but if it's not good enough then we have experience now with two good contract manufacturers on the JoCo/Trans-Ionospherics. I'm sure that Mike and Kent and the others have a wealth of options for making boards as well, and at these frequencies. <br><br>Julian explained that heat dissipation is the first thing to take care of. <br><br>-Michelle W5NYV</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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