MX2500L 5-2500MHz RF Mixer

MX2500L 5-2500MHz RF Mixer

DS Instruments MX2500L 5-2500MHz RF Mixer

The most compact and economical microwave integrated-mixer family on the planet.

New from DS Instruments, the MX2500L is a wideband high-performance RF mixer with integrated 35- 2500MHz Local Oscillator. LO frequency can be set with front controls, USB commands, or the provided windows PC application. The MX2500L makes an extremely convenient low-noise upconverter or downconverter by eliminating the need for cabling and a separate signal source. New internal harmonic filtering keeps undesired mixer spurs to a minimum!

MX2500L Hybrid RF Mixer Features:

• USB powered from Laptop, battery-pack, Smartphone Charger, PC…
• Up-converting, down-converting, general purpose mixing supported
• Compact, rugged aluminum enclosure
• Bright and efficient OLED display
• Simple and effective control interface
• Active LO harmonic-filtering
• LO power level control
• Industry standard virtual COM port serial commands
• Premium gold 50-ohm microwave SMA ports (RF & IF)
• Internal precision 10MHz reference frequency source
• External reference frequency input port (MCX)
• High-power LO output port (MCX)
• Free control software for PC

RF Hybrid Mixer Specs:

• Integrated 35 – 2500MHz programmable local oscillator
• IF range: 1 – 1000MHz
• RF range: 25-2500MHz
• Typical LO to RF isolation: 35dB
• Typical LO to IF isolation: 25dB
• Maximum RF power input: +17dBm
• LO Phase noise at 2.4GHz: -88dBc (10KHz offset)
• Low conversion loss: < 8dB typical
• Return loss: >12 dB
• Typical IP3: 20dBm
• Input P1dB: +5dBm
• LO Harmonic level: -30dBc typical (50-2500MHz)
• Reference source: ±2.5PPM 10MHz TCXO

Typical Mixing Applications:

• General microwave lab applications
• Receiver development
• Communications applications
• Bluetooth development
• IOT testing
• Wifi testing
• Software defined radio applications
• Block converting
• Defense / electronic warfare