RF Man - Impedance Matching in an RF Amplifier using Conventional RF Transformers and a NanoVNA 

Been struggling with impedance transformation and Reactance. This video brought me a big moment of insight. Thanks for posting.

You and Sharky are just awesome. The only two that seem to actually share knowledge with the community

Very nicely explained Sir.Thanks

Bravo.... somebody that actually teaches you. And explains everything, excellent work,

RF Man, Your insight is priceless and greatly appreciated. Thank you

Your video clears and answer all my questions on impedance matching. Thank you Sir "RF Man".. Salute!

WELL DONE YOU HAVE A MAGICAL CLEAR VOICE TO LISTEN TO AS WELL THANKS FOR SHARING YOU KNOWLEDGE AND NOT DYING WITH IT LIKE A LOT DO THESE DAYS GOD BLESS

My teacher drilled that formula into my head Z= sqrt(x^2 + Y^2) I will never forget it. I need to make some spread sheets as well, its a great idea. I made up quite a few for my microcontroller and labview classes.

Appreciate your effort in making such informative videos.

Very, very nice !! No have a lot of mathematics, but has a lot of practical knowledge !! Pretty good way ! Thanks a lot !

amazing video

Thats a match made in heaven

WELLL EXPLAINED THANKS

if you have zin for one transistor on input equal to 0.9 i multiply or i divide by two ? and for ouput ?

We got into calculating series and parallel branches of impedances as well as tank circuits at the end of the first year. We will be building some pretty simple things in the next semester but I really want to build high powered amplifier using one of these devices and incorporate a switchable matching network to use across the amateur bands. My vna should be here in a few more days. Looking forward to playing with that, Thank you for sharing this info. We havent learned the smith chart yet in school but having learned all of the theory already, I pretty much see whats going on in the smith chart, AC theory busted my balls LOL

Say you are running class AB or B with a transformer that has a center tap secondary, do your turns ratio need to be divided in two so you would have half the amount of turns? EDIT you answered my question in the video

When I see the transistor S parameters I thought you would have to make a matching network that would also cancel out the reactance so you would get maximum power into the transistor. Is this not so?

What should be a good input transformer for broadband, from 3 to 30Mhz?

Hi. Can you give me some more details regarding the 3:1 transformer uses at 9:32? In particular, how it was sized. I believe is coreless am I right?

Suitable matching for 432 MHz with that MRFE6vp1k2 or BLF188xr ?

Why are you using a purely resistive load (the pot) to simulate a complex impedance?

Very well presented. Thanks and a big thumbs up to you 👍👍👍 De VU2RZA

Hello RF Man, how much does the Excel spreadsheet cost? It would be very useful for me, thank you.

I wish you could have been my professor for Linear Controls class! Thanks so much for this. By the way, isn't the NanoVNA wonderful? It allows us peasants to explore the wonderful world of RF. 73s

It would be nice if you can share the spreadsheets here

sir pleas can you share this excel?

awesome video you can share the excel file Thanks Alex

the simplest way is to measure from transistor side no need of variable resistor just terminate input or output with 50 ohms simple

sir pleas yes

Good demonstration, but the input match looks really narrow band!

sir pleas can you share this excel?

Such a great channel but the video technique is horrendous. Try a tripod and don’t zoom in so close. Would like to watch more of his videos but …

After the 30th "OK", I stopped watching and went to another video without the annoying OK.