Bridge-Tee RF Diplexer

Published:2012/12/6 1:33:00 Author:muriel | Keyword: Bridge-Tee RF Diplexer | From:SeekIC

This is an excellent bandstop/bandpass diplexer popularized by Joe Reisert W1JR. This easy to build diplexer has a low parts count and is easily built using Ugly Construction. Resistors R1 and R2 present a 50 ohm impedance to the mixer output and a 50 ohm impedance to the input of the post mixer amplifier. The IF frequency is passed through the diplexer while out of passband RF is given a low impedance path to ground. The capacitance for C1 is generally built up by substituting the nearest standard value capacitor or by placing 2 or more capacitors in parallel with each other to achieve the desired value. The same procedure is then repeated for the C2 capacitance. For more strenuous purposes, a portion of C1 and C2 or the inductors L1 and L2 can be variable and adjusted on the bench. The inductors can easily wound on powdered-iron toroid cores. I have used T50-2 or T50-6 type toroids with good results. The Q of the inductors is 1.It is possible to design a more generalized form of this diplexer with a higher loaded Q in the resonators. The diplexer shown and used in the program has a Q of 1. This was used by W1JR in his VHF/UHF World Column in the now defunct HAM Radio Magazine for March and November 1984. It was also more recently used by Jacob Makhinson, N6NWP in his A High-Dynamic Range MF/HF Receiver Front End in QST for February 1993. The actual formulae for this diplexer is far more complex than the simplified formula shown below or used in the program, but both provide a very good approximation for the Q = 1 version as used by W1JR and N6NWP. If you wanted Q=10, the series tuned circuit would use L that is 10 times as high with C to resonate. The parallel tuned circuit would then use C that was 10 times higher with L to resonate. A supplemental web page with some hard-core mathematics for this diplexer can be found on the Diplexer Supplemental Page.



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