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When you say you get 5.2 dB and another reads 4.8 dB, are you saying you have 2 identical pad/coupler/whatever? It could be just variations along between one device to another. There is something call mismatch loss and it related to S11, ML = 10 \log_{10} (1-|\rho|^2).

You should look at the S21. If you want to know the loss between transitions, just measure it on a network analyzer, however this could get tricky in terms of calibrating on a VNA though.

Yes and Yes. If you wait 5RC, the voltage across the capacitor will be very close to its final value.

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Your question is very general, but I will take a shot at it. An antenna can be viewed as just another circuit element, along with the other elements you already know about. Moreover an antenna can be viewed as a transducer - converting voltages and currents to fields. Take a simple dipole...

I have no idea as well. Don't people know high voltages could be dangerous to their health? I recall a time at work I opened up an instrument to work on it from the inside. I made the mistake of wearing my metalic watch. Typically nothing is exposed, but I had the shields off so I can monitor...

Thats because you shorted the gate and the source together. They are tied to -5 Volts with respect to ground but not -5 volts with respect to source.

Agilent still has some great designs but everyone I talk to tells me its no longer like the way HP was.

What good is source transformation? Honestly I don't know. I have never ever had to use it at in career so far (2 years). If you want to cascade the filter, you could just place the next filter in parallel to the resistor and cap, the currents sources would add. The resistors would combine in...

Yes. Somewhere buried away in your textbook is something call source transformation. If you have a voltage source with a series resistor, you can transform it to a current source in parallel with the same resistance. The current source is simply the original voltage source divided by the resistor.

I would be very interested in seeing other engineer's crib sheets. My notebook is pretty bare (non-existent).

I was getting that feeling as well. If I remember correctly the sketch of the circuit that the OP posted is from a design article from ED magazine (I think the author was Jim Williams). I first came across the article and could not see how the author arrived for the equation for the current...

Answer 1: A mixer Answer 2: A detector diode.

I meant your inbox for this forum. I'll have to think about this one for a bit.

I would think its the transformer coils.