COMTECH XICOM – OUTDOOR AC-Powered PUMA 120-Watt SSPA/BUC (Ka Band)

Description

XICOM – Puma 120W, Ka-band, GaN SATCOM SSPA/BUC
Xicom Puma Products Designed for fixed and transportable terminals needing high power density with high efficiency in challenging environments, Pumas are flexible, high-performance, AC-powered, antenna-mount outdoor SSPAs/BUCs that offer many features and options including internal L-band BUCs, internal LO reference, extensive data logging, easy-to-use web-based GUI, ethernet SNMP (v1 or v3), and a wide range of available power combined and redundancy systems.

The most powerful, rugged Ka-band SSPA/Block Upconverter to provide 60W of linear power for satcom uplinks High efficiency GaN solid-state design enables big power with high efficiency, while handling the toughest environments.
The new product line includes the Puma 200X (100-Watt linear X-band), Puma 300X (150-Watt linear X-band), Puma 400X (200-Watt linear X-band); the Puma 400Ku (200-Watt linear Ku-band); the Puma 80Ka (40-Watt linear Ka-band), and Puma 120Ka (60-Watt linear Ka-band), each weighing between 15 and 50 lbs.

These powerful Puma SSPAs come with optional internal L-band BUCs, including a range of single and multi-band BUC options for the 27.5 to 31.0 GHz Ka-band. They also incorporate internal redundancy switching, provide extensive attenuation control, data logging and web GUI availability, and optional internal frequency reference.

Output RF Power and Linearity

• Eq. Saturated Power, PSAT 51 dBm (120W)
• Maximum CW Power, PMAX 50 dBm (100W)
• Linear Power, PLIN (min) 47.8 dBm (60W)
• 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) 70 dB ±5 dB
• Gain Attenuation Range 25 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