• DocumentCode
    1999895
  • Title

    Low-Cost Downconverter for UK Demonstration of TV Distribution by Milumetre-Waves

  • Author

    Wilson, P.G. ; Gosling, I.G.

  • Author_Institution
    British Telecom Research Laboratories, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, UK.
  • fYear
    1988
  • fDate
    12-15 Sept. 1988
  • Firstpage
    457
  • Lastpage
    462
  • Abstract
    Five receiver downconverters have been produced, tested and deployed for a demonstration of TV distribution by millimetre-waves. Input signals in the 29GHz band are downconverted to 0.95-1.75GHz, and fed via a coaxial downlead to a DBS-compatible indoor demodulation unit. Monolithic Millimetre-Wave IC (MMWIC) technology has been chosen to meet the low cost targets for the system, and this downconverter is an initial demonstration vehicle for this technology. Conversion gains and noise figures of the five downconverters were in the range 30 to 38dB and 12 to 16dB, respectively.
  • Keywords
    Band pass filters; Coaxial components; Costs; Frequency; Isolators; Local oscillators; Noise figure; TV receivers; Testing; Waveguide transitions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference, 1988. 18th European
  • Conference_Location
    Stockholm, Sweden
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EUMA.1988.333855
  • Filename
    4132543