Posted by pdziepak 4 days ago
Any tips for working on hobby RF/microwave projects and staying motivated while doing them? I am an EE and have a long list of projects I want to do at home, but I can never seem to find the time to do them.
I work in retail but most 5G devices have these awful TS9 or similar connectors which we have to adapt to something usable like SMA
I literally have customers returning products as faulty because “the connector just will not sit correctly!” - even though it’s performing as intended
Last winter I made a design for a hobby spectrum analyser and the main stumbling block was a suitable low phase noise oscillator. Most of the RF sources that I came about have terrible spurs from pll adjusts when they are used for sweeping. I’ve been thinking about buying a YIG on ebay and do it that way but that approach would devalue the project for open source.
I’m eager to look at that lmx2594 you use, thank you for the article.