Some nice components #

Bias #

• RCBT-36

  this is a nice wideband bias tee(10MHz to 6GHz) and pretty high power too(500mA)

Broadband Inductors #

• Coilcraft

  Coilcraft has some good wideband conical inductors - the BCR series is great for ultra wideband amps such as the CMD240 but they are a bitch to solder

• Piconics

  Piconics will even make custom inductors for you and generally they are cheaper than Coilcraft but they are hard to get, you need a contact in the USA

Oscillators #

• Morion MV317

  Extremely low phase noise OCXO from Morion - expensive(~200 USD), hard to get(factory in Russia) but really the best.

Multipliers #

• AMK-2-13+

  Decent doubler, good for the low range(up to 1GHz)

• KSX2-442+

  Decent doubler, covers the next range(1200-4400 MHz)

Gain Blocks #

• TRF37C73

  Cheap general purpose gain block, also worth mentioning his brother TRF37D73

• SBB-5089Z

  Another good general purpose gain block, higher power, flatter, better for wideband biasing

• TQP369181

  Another good general purpose gain block, lower gain

• HMC3587

  Good cascadable gain block (4-10GHz) with a really good NF(3.5dB)

LNAs #

• HMC8411

  Very good broadband LNA (1.7dB NF!)

• HMC565LC5

  Great high gain 6-20 GHz LNA (2.5dB NF)

PAs #

SAW Filters #

Si Switches #

Dividers #

• ADF5000

  Great Broadband (4-18GHz) div2 prescaler

PLLs #

• LMX2492

  Great Low Phase noise PLL with external VCO

VCOs #

• HCM733

  Really good VCO(10-20GHz). Goes great with the LMX2492 PLL

Mixers #

• ADE-25MH+

  Great little 5-2500MHz mixer

• MAC-12G+

  Great Mixer for higher frequencies (3800-12000MHz)

• ADL5350

  Decent Up/Down converter with LO Preamplifier