Eliptical low pass filter simulation results discussed?
http://www.zl2pd.com/SingleSpanOsc.html
The filter simulation gives much ripple throughout the hf band. Also it does not give any notch at 48mhz as the author states. What is wrong about my simulation?
Here is a screenshot.
What is your exact specification ? I can check the components values...
I'm not an oscillator type but can tell you that the author has a typo in his design. I see the same thing.
FYI: I'm not familiar with with your simulation tool but notice that it says "Linear V".
the filter has to have 50R input/output. it has to be an LPF at 35mhz and has to have a deep notch at 48mhz as well
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look at the photo of the complete oscillator by the author http://www.zl2pd.com/img/SpanOsc/WideSpanOscFrontView.jpg
the little figure after the mixer shows the filter response he claims. LPF at 35mhz and a deep notch at 48mhz as well
To have a cutoff frequency at 35MHz and a deep notch at 48GHz, something has to give. Either there will be high ripple and poor return loss as in this design or a higher order filter or a combination of filters (LPF & notch).
It looks like you're displaying the response with a linear vertical scale. Here's the result from my simulation, displayed both ways:
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You don't see the notch because you cut off everything below -30dB.
My point was that a higher order filter may be necessary. A 5th order filter will have poor return loss and > 2dB of ripple to achieve this slope
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Here is the results of a 7th order elliptical. The values look reasonable but I've not run a yield or optimization.
These values seems to give reasonable results without changing the topology order