If you want to save some money, try Mini-Circuits. http://www.minicircuits.com/ We use one of their amps as a pre-amp to our receiver (don't have the model number handy). It give us about 22db gain from 10Mhz-2Ghz. Works good and it cost hundreds, not thousands of dollars. Beware! What you want is gain over noise. If a 20db amp has 10db noise you are only gaining 10db. Look for low noise amps. The cost you pay for an amp is more dependant on the noise factor, not the gain. Brian
____________________Reply Separator____________________ Subject: Pre-amps Author: marti...@appliedbiosystems.com List-Post: emc-pstc@listserv.ieee.org Date: 11/14/01 1:58 PM I am having some difficulties locating manufacturers that provide preamps with a 20-22dB gain. What manufacturer/model do you recommend? Why? Your assistance is appreciated. Regards Joe Martin Applied Biosystems ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server. ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.