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Re: RF power combiner

From Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net>
Newsgroups sci.electronics.design
Subject Re: RF power combiner
Date 2025-10-23 16:48 -0400
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On 2025-10-22 04:40, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
> While musing over a text about transmission line transformers,
> combiners, splitters and so on, I came up with a power combiner
> that promises a bandwidth spanning from some kHz well into the
> GHz domain, with good isolation between input ports, and that
> does _not_ have a null where its transmission lines are half a
> wavelength long.
> 
> I could find no other examples of this arrangement. The usual
> combiners are wire- or coax- wound transformers, with 3 decade
> bandwidths in the 100kHz-100MHz ballpark, or Wilkinson things
> that only begin to work above half a GHz.
> 
> This design should be able to work from a few kHz up to well
> into the GHz domain. Anyway, for what it's worth, here it is.
> 
> Jeroen Belleman
> 
> =========================
> 
> Version 4
<snip>

That is one weird-ass combiner, for sure.  Looks like it has to be made 
out of coax, on account of the switcheroo in the grounds.

I like it!

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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RF power combiner Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2025-10-22 10:40 +0200
  Re: RF power combiner Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2025-10-23 16:48 -0400
    Re: RF power combiner Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2025-10-24 00:39 +0200
      Re: RF power combiner Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> - 2025-10-24 08:51 -0400
        Re: RF power combiner Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2025-10-24 19:21 +0200
        Re: RF power combiner Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2025-10-25 04:22 +1100
      Re: RF power combiner Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2025-10-24 13:17 +0000
        Re: RF power combiner Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2025-10-24 19:15 +0200
          Re: RF power combiner Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2025-10-25 14:49 +1100
        Re: RF power combiner Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> - 2025-10-24 15:33 -0400
        Re: RF power combiner john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2025-10-24 12:48 -0700
    Re: RF power combiner Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2025-10-24 18:17 +1100

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