Open hardware medium power RF amplifier with antenna switch

In order to enhance the output power of a SDR, I have designed the following RF medium power amplifier. This particular design is tuned to 1.5GHz band, but you can easily use my program for impedance matching to recompute the values of inductors and capacitors for different frequency band, as long as within the limits of the active components employed.

I have used HMC311ST89 as first stage amplifier, RF2126 as second stage, and HMC784MS8GE as an antenna switch. The design is open hardware and available as Kicad files. For convenience I provide also schematics in PDF.
A previous version with a discrete PIN diode switch is here. I have actually built a version without the antenna switch (which is optional), using just simple 0.8mm thick 1oz FR4 PCB without impedance control in the manufacturing process (to save cost).


My other RF-related pages:
Program for design of impedance matching network; using USRP as antenna analyzer
Some experiments with the LimeSDR software radio




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