摘要 |
APPARATUS FOR MATCHING UNBALANCED R.F. BASEBAND SIGNALS TO BALANCED SIGNALS ON TWISTED TWO-WIRE LINE Impedance of each termination in a wiring environment, wherein unshielded twisted pair wires with a characteristic impedance at 10 MHz of about 85 to 130 ohms are used as a communication medium for a local area network where run lengths do not exceed about 250 feet between terminations, is matched at each termination by an impedance matching termination and line conditioning apparatus, hereinafter a matching device. The matching device matches impedance of twisted pair wiring to a nominal 50 termination over a bandwidth of d.c. to above about 10 MHz. The matching device comprises a low-pass filter coupled at a first port to a fifty-ohm standard BNC connector and at a second port to a tapped autotransformer means with a d.c. blocking capacitor for impedance matching and balanced to unbalanced conversion, which in turn is coupled to a common mode inductor, which in turn is coupled to terminals for each side of a twisted pair cable. The common mode inductor is for passing differential signals over the entire frequency spectrum while rejecting all common mode signals over substantially all of the frequency spectrum. |