<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">the analysis does help, yes, thank you. looking at the situation from a maximum power permissible for a spurious output is a useful legerdemain.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">my antenna might not be as frequency selective as your model. i'm using a window line fed doublet here. i suspect it isn't quite resonant on 40m, either.</div><div dir="ltr"><br><div>i have enough information to dispel most concerns about radiating a gang of harmonics. :-D i was planning an order from QRP-Labs anyway.</div><div><br></div><div>tip for everyone: the Raspi supplied (via Element14) power supply (mine is a "Stontronics" 5.1V 2.5A) puts hum sidebands on the output of the 30m HAT. You can hear the hum on the transmitted signal. WSPR managed to decode my signal both at X and at X +/- 60 Hz. My Ravpower 4-port USB phone charger turns out to be a much better supply - the transmitted signal is, to my ear (and on the panadaptor display) a pure tone now.</div><div><br></div><div> - 0x49 -</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 8:51 AM Bruce Raymond <<a href="mailto:bruce@raymondtech.net">bruce@raymondtech.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Hi Chris,<br>
<br>
I picked a 7 pole lpf to ensure I met the FCC/Part 97 -43 dBC
requirement. According to Elsie 2.72, the lpf response is -46 dBc for
the second harmonic on 30m. The MOSFET is acting sorta like a switch, so
the output should be primarily odd order harmonics, although the
measurement for 40m shows this isn't completely true :-)<br>
<br>
I'm also assuming that the antenna isn't as good at radiating a second
harmonic compared to the fundamental. I made a 40m dipole model and
analyzed it with 4NEC (I'm new to this process and don't know that I've
necessarily done it correctly). The return loss is -15 dB at 7 MHz and
essentially 0 dB at 14 MHz. I'm assuming that this means for my
particular model the antenna essentially does a 15 dB worse job of
radiating the 40m second harmonic than it does at the fundamental, so
with the existing 30m lpf (-23 dB reduction of second harmonic) the
actual radiation of the second harmonic would be down very roughly -38
dBc (23 + 15). This is still greater than -43 dBc requirement, but we're
dealing with power levels very much less than allowed, so if it's okay
to radiate -43 dBc with 1500 watts, we're allowed to put out 75 mW. The
WSPR transmitter with a 30m lpf is way below that even at 40m.<br>
<br>
Hope this helps.<br>
<br>
73 Bruce<br>
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