Do you know the answer? Click here when you give up. Today only 1 out of 100 microwave engineers know the answer, back in the 1950's, 90% of microwave engineers would have known as they would have been schooled in the RadLab series. Which of the boys achieves a higher voltage for a given RF input power? This is a great question for interviewing a microwave design candidate to put him/her to shame.

Goofus uses waveguide, Gallant uses coax. Goofus and Gallant each build a detector using the same diode. but it is arguable that Frankie was more cuddly and lovable. Goofus and Gallant predate Frankie Lymon singing the JD song which was a stretch for him and the Unknown Editor alike. Long before Beavis and Butthead provided wholesome entertainment, Goofus and Gallant were teamed in a magazine called Children's Highlights that your parents would subscribe to if they were afraid that you were in danger of being a juvenile delinquent. Here's a clickable index for our material on detectors:īasic detector circuit and detector terminologyĭetector Product Search (on everything RF) Goofus and Gallant design detectors Detectors are used as the receiving element in amplitude modulation schemes among other uses. Click here to go to our main page on diodesĪ detector is a two-terminal device that is used to rectify an RF signal (like a diode rectifies an alternating current signal in a power supply).

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