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This oscilloscope screenshot shows
the classic Class-E waveform.
Please ignore the ringing due to
poor set-
up of the ‘scope probes
etc. The lower (blue) trace is the 5V
squarewave at the gate of the
BS170 transistors. The upper (red)
trace is the voltage as the BS170
drain. It peaks at approximately 40V
in this example. This measurement
was done with 12V supply and on
40m (7MHz).
The important point to note is that
when the BS170 are switched ON
(the gate voltage is 5V), the drain
voltage is zero. When the BS170 is
OFF the gate voltage pulses nicely to a large amplitude. Class-E!
The summary: Class-E is actually quite easy to achieve in practice! Perhaps all the complicated
mathematics might help to squeeze out another % or two of efficiency. But for practical purposes,
it’s a wonderful building block to use in a single-band CW transceiver.
5.11
Low Pass Filter
The transmitter output is rich in harmonics and must
be followed by a good Low Pass Filter, to attenuate
the harmonics and satisfy regulatory compliance.
The standard, well-proven QRP Labs Low Pass
Filter kit
http://qrp-labs.com/lpfkit
is used here. To
save space and cost, the components are installed
directly on the PCB, not on a plug-in board.
It is a 7-element filter design originally by Ed W3NQN then published for many years on the G-
QRP Club web site’s technical pages.
5.12
Key-shaping circuit
A hard-keyed CW transmitter generates clicks many hundreds of Hz away from the transmitted
signal that can annoy users of adjacent frequencies. This is purely a consequence of the
mathematics of the Fourier transform and is unavoidable. Any time you switch a signal instantly on
or off, you WILL splatter energy onto unwanted nearby frequencies.
To combat this, any good CW transmitter should include an RF envelope shaping circuit to soften
the key-down and key-up transitions. The ideal envelope shape is a raised cosine, but this is
difficult to implement without significantly increasing the complexity of the circuit.
Содержание QCX 5W CW
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