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    January 2021
    Affordable RMS Power Meter, Operating from 100 MHz to 40 GHz

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    Figure 1. A complete broadband RF power meter

    RMS-responding RF power meters are widely used in test and measurement applications to precisely and accurately measure the RF power of signals with varying crest factors. These expensive connectorized devices offer a high level of precision, while relying on extensive characterization and calibration, but this pr
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    01/04/2021
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