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    Carl,

    Lovely to see you're back. I have been elsewhere also, but now furiously examining log amplifiers for the input device. Alas!! My dear old 'scope has **** herself. Replacement on the way - hope my old eyes can interprete the pictures.

    In the intervening months I have played with the input amplifier. Despite having a leaning towards balanced inputs, I have examined really low-impedance amplifiers - the best by far has been Self's circuit. The damn thing passes square-waves "right up there" - getting into Mhtz regions. This circuit is published in
    Electronics World - it presents a noise-figure 15db below an NE5534 - that must be an improvement to be taken on board. If interested, then e-mail me, but I will have to respond with the article via snail-mail.

    Has any-one fiddled with Joe Carr's thoughts upon MRI detectors? This concept involves two detectors - their responses are co-examined via a divider function - looks like a very-focussed although an enhanced response emerges. My understanding is that Joe has passed away some months ago. I lament his passing.

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    Hi Graeme! Hope things are well in the southern hemisphere, I guess as we wind down detecting you're cranking up.

    Sadly, I've had no time to look at log amps, other than one I've designed for a radio chip I'm working on. I personally think the right answer for PI is a time-gain amp, where the gain is ramped in dB-vs-time manner.

    Just got my latest issue of Electronics World... still has Joe Carr's article. Of course, they're written months in advance so you may be right about his passing. He's written some really good stuff.

    - Carl

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