As you can all see from the photo, I've already made the LPF. In time I will make this available as a kit, I'm only held back temporarily by sourcing connectors, I have another device needing them that will make up the rest of an order.
It's a 7-pole Chebyshev design. Circuit diagram of LC network below.
The component values were chosen as the closest preferred values to those derived from a QUCS simulation.
Band | C1,C4 | C2,C3 | L1,L3 | L2 |
20m | 430pF | 620pF | 560nH | 680nH |
The inductors are wirewound ones, I suspect multilayer parts would not have enough Q.
And it all fits with 1206 SMD parts neatly on a 15mmx20mm board with a 10-way socket on the underside to mate with the first 10 Raspberry Pi pins.
The connector is an edge-launched SMA - it's quite small, and not impossible to solder by hand.
I think this is one of the smallest Raspberry Pi add-on boards made, if not the smallest.
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