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From: Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net>
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Subject: Re: Drat. NTE is gone, and they took the last 5-GHz PNP with them.
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 07:30:50 -0000 (UTC)
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Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:
> On a sunny day (Wed, 4 Sep 2024 17:54:19 -0400) it happened Phil Hobbs
> <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote in
> <6b1217f0-f55b-95b4-6516-6914d18d0e91@electrooptical.net>:
> 
>> The NTE2403, similar to the BFT92, but a bit better overall.  Dunno who 
>> actually made them. (I saw the news on s.e.repair today.)
>> 
>> Rochester claims to have 1,500,000 of the 2SA1462 (1.8 GHz) for 20 
>> cents, but that's all she wrote.
>> 
>> I have a couple of reels of BFT92s and one of BFG31s, so I'm good for 
>> protos and small production, but I can't use PNP wraparound bootstraps 
>> for customer designs anymore. :(
>> 
>> Barstids.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Phil Hobbs
> 
> Lots if RF snall signal low noise stoff in LNBs:
>  https://www.infineon.com/dgdl/Infineon-Design_guide_for_RF-transistors_and_diode_in_Low-Noise-Block-ApplicationNotes-v01_00-EN.pdf?fileId=8ac78c8c7e7124d1017f01f071aa5b8f
>   Does that help?
> 
> 
> Complete LNBs inclusive transistors and peeseebees are 5 dollies on ebay.
> 
> 

Thanks.  It’s not a 50-ohm system, so using those would be hard. I have
thousands  for personal use, but can’t put them in licensed designs, which
is what I’m moaning about. 

Cheers 

Phil Hobbs 

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Dr Philip C D Hobbs  Principal Consultant  ElectroOptical Innovations LLC /
Hobbs ElectroOptics  Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics