COMTECH XICOM – OUTDOOR DC-Powered BOBCAT 50-Watt SSPA (X Band)

Description

XICOM – Bobcat 50W, X-band, GaN SATCOM BUC
Designed for compact portable terminals needing high power from very small packages operating in challenging environments, Bobcat’s are high-performance, DC-powered, feed-mount outdoor BUCs with outsized features including extensive data logging, easy-to-use web-based GUI, ethernet SNMP (v1 or v3). High efficiency GaN solid-state design enables big power from a box while still handling the toughest environments. If you need a sleek, powerful BUC to speed up your compact terminal – you need a Bobcat TM .
The new product line includes the Bobcat 50X (25 Watt linear X-band); the Bobcat 64Ku (32 Watt linear Ku-band); and the Bobcat 32Ka (16 Watt linear Ka-band BUC), each in about 110 cu in and weighing 1.8 to 2.3 klgs. Even in this small package you don’t have to give up on features. The 2.2 kilogram Bobcats still have extensive attenuation control and calibration capability, data logging and web GUI availability, and security features such as the optional SNMP v3 implementation.
Xicom Bobcat-50X Features
Powerful: 25W linear power (single carrier)
Efficient: 160W DC power draw at linear power
Compact: 2.2 Kilograms in 116 cu inch package
Rugged: -40C to +60C, MIL-STD-810 environment
Flexible: Interchangeable with Ka- and Ku-band Bobcats
General Specifications
Frequency and Input Levels

• RF Output Frequency 7.9 to 8.4 GHz (other options available)
• IF Input Frequency 950 to 1450 MHz
• Input Level, No Damage +10 dBm max
• LO Reference Frequency External 10 MHz
• LO Reference Level 0 dBm ± 5 dB
• IF/REF Input Impedence 50 ohms

Output RF Power and Linearity

• Eq. Saturated Power, PSAT 47 dBm (50W)
• Maximum CW Power, PMAX 46 dBm (40W)
• Linear Power, PLIN (min) 44 dBm (25W)
• Spectral Regrowth @ PLIN 30 dBc max @ (QPSK, OQPSK, 5.0 SR, alpha=0.2) >1 SR offset
• Intermodulation Products @ PLIN -25 dBc max wrt sum of 2 equal carriers AM to PM Conversion @ PLIN 2.0°/dB max

Gain

• Small Signal (typical) 55 dB ±5 dB
• Gain Attenuation Range 20 dB in 0.1 dB steps
• Gain Variation (over 40 MHz) 1.0 dB p-p max
• Gain Variation (over full band) 3.0 dB p-p max
• Gain Slope (max) 0.04 dB/MHz
• Gain Stability, over 24 hours 0.5 dB p-p max
• Gain Variation over Temp 4.0 dB p-p max

 
Comtech Xicom Technology, founded in 1991, has grown to be a world leading satellite communications (satcom) amplifier supplier, offering the broadest product line in the industry. Our focus on customers, innovation and quality has driven growth and created a company with a reputation for excellence. Regarded as an industry leader across the board, Xicom provides rugged, highly efficient and reliable Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers (TWTAs), Klystron Power Amplifiers (KPAs), Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs), and Block Upconverters (BUCs) for commercial and military applications around the world. These Xicom High Power Amplifiers (HPAs) are in use in critical communications links on the ground, in the air and on the sea; they support fixed traditional and direct-to-home broadcast, mobile news gathering, transportable and flyaway systems, secure high data rate communications, and broadband access over satcom.