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Post subject: LNA Design for satellite receiver

Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 3:05 pm

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Can anyone tell me how it is possible to build a low noise amplifier with a gain of more than 50 dB and a noise figure less than 1 dB? Most LNB's of a satellite receiver have such good characteristics but most commercial IC's and MMIC's are far away from that.

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Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 2:50 pm

The overall noise figure is dominated by the first stage in the design. You could cascade several amps and rig up a high gain low noise amp yourself. Only the first stage would have to be low noise, the rest don't have to.

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Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 2:24 pm

what frequencies are we talking about?

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