TSP #204 - Teardown, Tutorial & Experiments with Active/Passive Microwave Band-Pass Filters (APS104)

In this episode Shahriar repairs an OPTOELECTRONICS APS-104 tunable band-pass filter. The instrument provides continuous tuning from 20MHz to 1GHz with a constant 4-MHz band pass response. Since the repair proves to be fairly easy, the video focuses on comparison between various band-pass filter architectures. This includes microwave cavity filters, PCB-based filters with varactor tuning, YIG filters and frequency-translation filters. A range of measurements highlight the differences and pros/cons of the aforementioned filters. The APS-104 unit is fully reverse engineered and characterized as well.

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