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Old 28th Mar 2018, 9:26 am   #21
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Default Re: Static damage to semi conductors

Static can certainly cause damage to RF devices - as mentioned, the device will contunue to behave as a transistor under DC conditions but noise-figure and gain at a few hundred MHz can be significantly worsened.

Early masthead preamps of a certain type sold in the early/mid01970s to the 70cm-band amateur market which used a grounded-base silicon bipolar transistor of a type more common in two-way-radio gear were prone to this if fed from an antenna that was not DC-grounded; hot, dry winds would build up a static charge. When your "10dB gain, 2dB noise-figure" preamp turns into one with 2dB gain and 10dB noise-figure you know you've got problems.

I found the 'failed' transistors still worked as well as something like a BC108 in simple DC otr audio circuits!
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