Today I built a quick pcb with a pine diode and an SMA connector. The pin diode switch between a sort and an open circuit.
The pine diode I used was not the best choice, but the only I already have in my pile of junk. I tested it with my VNA, to metter the impedance change.
It's a big fail. My two impedances are near the same ... the impedance doesn't change from a short...
Maybe this IC was damaged, because it was unsoldered on junk, maybe also I heated it too mutch, or even it's because I missed to add a DC blocking capacitor.
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