About the Freeware..


Welcome to "RF POWER 2", a collection of simple programs useful for calculating component values commonly neeed in general-purpose construction of high voltage power supplies and RF power amplifiers using vacuum tube technology. Like the small-block Chevy, you just can't beat a good tube amp for cost-effective reliability and abuse-tolerant performance.

Most of these programs grew out of a desire to experiment with different variables for Linear RF power amplifiers. Unfortunately, a "ground-up" approach to the design of a PI-L output circuit for use with specific voltages, conduction angles, and tube designs, while producing very accurate results when pencil is put to paper, is extremely time consuming.

There are quick, very close results when reasonable data are entered. In some cases, you may bomb out, for instance if you try to use ridiculous values which are too far outside the range customarily found in tube gear, such as a Q of 3 in the plate circuit, etc.. Designing 12 volt power supplies is not a good idea with these programs, but if you want to design a 6000 volt power supply and a 4-1000A AB1 stage, you will be pleased! In any case, an error will terminate the program safely. These programs will run under plain old dos, but don't let that put you off.

These programs are public domain.

Listing of programs is in the format of filename.ext followed by size

BRIDGPWR EXE 11,504
design a power supply with a bridge recitifier and a capacitor-input PI filter. It gives an approximation and is more accurate when a fairly large input capacitance is specified, such as 10 uf. needless to say, following this with a choke an another large capacitor will almost eliminate ripple. very good for AM linear amps.

VSWR EXE 8,208
discover the maximum voltage impressed on a transmission line due to high SWR.

TEACO2 EXE 9,232
very simple model for a transverse excitation, atmospheric-pressure carbon dioxide laser (not exactly ham radio, but...).

SOLECOIL EXE 6,096
approximation of the inuctance of a solenoid coil.

SERCAP EXE 6,768
capacitors in series - the value.

RESPAR EXE 6,448
resistors in parallel - the value.

PWRDENS EXE 9,072
approximation of the far-field power density from a radiator.

PIOUT EXE 13,104
PI and PI-L calc for those RF amplifiers. gets you extremely close, proven with 4-1000A and parallel 6146 amplifiers.

MATCH EXE 9,776
PI-network matching circuits. Like PIOUT.EXE except asks for input Z instead of calculating it.

LREACT EXE 5,936
reactance of an indutor at frequency, and the resonant capacitance.

IVSPOWER EXE 11,616
calc for voltage-doubler power supply with PI filter. Otherwise it's just like bridgpwr.exe.

INDPAR EXE 6,784
Inductances in parallel.

IMSERCT EXE 9,824
calc for impedance of a series circuit.

HVCAP EXE 7,616
make useful HV capacitors from window glass and foil!

DIELECTR EXE 4,368
displays common dielectric properties of materials.

CREACT EXE 5,888
reactance of a capacitor at frequency and the resonant inductance.

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