The mini-circuit ADE-1 mixer is a diode-ring type passive mixer. As a +7dBm mixer work best at +7dBm of local oscillator input, or at least +4dBm to make it start working. It sounds like a quite huge power, so may be impedance matching is needed to optimize the efficiency of driving this mixer.
The network analyzer is set to 10MHz to 100MHz, in -10dBm low power level, it have a quite high impedance(313ohm@10MHz) and a bit of capacitive (-22j ohm@10MHz).
In -5dBm power level, it's impedance is lowered.
In 0dBm, it's impedance is quite close to 50ohm
In +4dBm, even lower.
In +7dBm, even lower
In +10dBm, Well, it's quite hard to drive because impedance is quite low.
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