Luis- Only beacuse I was more familiar with balanced doublers, and felt that the x4 would need tougher filtering.
The balanced doublers also have much better conversion efficiency, thus fewer gain stages. Or so I think. Besides, I had drawers full of 1N5711 diodes, & toriods! -Brian -------------- Original message from Luis Cupido <cup...@mail.ua.pt>: -------------- > Brian, > > Was there any particular reason to > go from 5MHz to 20MHz in two steps ? > couldn't be just one x4 stage followed by the filter > (preferably xtal) ? > > Luis Cupido. > ct1dmk. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.