A simple project, within most of homebrewers capabilities. Very simple tuning, a single stage to align, besides VFO frequency adjusting. Easy to find, cheap components. Reduced dimensions and low power requirement, a totally portable rig. It's worth while to spend some words about the DSB modulation. It's simply a type of amplitude modulation (AM). It is common knowledge that an AM signal is composed by a carrier and two sidebands, wich take the whole information. The figure below represents an AM signal at 14.000 KHz, modulated with a 5 KHz bandwide BF signal.
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The receiver is a direct conversion unit. It is composed by a double tuned preselector, equipped with a
BF965 mosfet, delivering a 10 dB gain, and a product detector using a "classic" NE602
(2)
(further 18 dB of
gain). A variable capacitor C4 allows to adjust the sensitivity according to the connected antenna, so we may
find a right compromise to limit the effects of the strong broadcastings operating at the band edges. The
detected audio is amplified by a 2N2222 transistor and an LM386
(3)
IC delivering a few hundreds mW into
an 8 Ohm speaker.
RLYA
MIC
+12
+12
PTT +12
+12 TX
RLY
VFO
U2 NE602
U1
LM386
RX
RX
TX
+12
RLYB
+12 TX
TX
TR2
BF965
TR1
2N5320
C41
220n
C33
1n
DZ1
6.8V
C38
100m
C40
10n
C37
220n
R24
10K
C36
10n
C24
100m
C23
100n
C25
220m
R14
10
C26
100n
R17
18K
C30
22n
C29
10m
C31
1n
L5
100m
R18
1K
R19
82K
R4
56K
R5
82K
R6
68 K
R7
150
C16
4.7
D1
1N4001
R22
470
R10
470
C27
10m
R15
470
XTAL
C1 C2
L1
L2
22m
C6
100n
C4
60p
C7
100n
R1
2.2
C8
1n
R2
5.6
R3
47
C9
100n
L3
C13
60p
C14
C15
10n
+12 RX
+12 RX
R23
22K
TR4
2N2222
C11
100m
C10
100n
C17
10n
C18
10n
C19
C20
60
C21
100m
C22
100n
L4
C5
100p
C32
100n
C34
C35
R9
10K
R13
1K
KEY
R20
10K
C3
100n
R8
10
TR3 2N2222
R16
47K
D2
1N4001
R21 3.3K
R12
15
C28
10n
R11
1K
D3
1N4148
C12
10n
C39
10n
RLYA...
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