Antenna Circuits
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The schematic shown, is a 2 transistor signal amplifier between 10 MHz to 30 MHz. The BF256C and the BF494 are very popular transistors and are easy to find. The transformer works as insulator and amplifier. http://www.next.gr/rf/antennas/active-antennas/.. -
The antenna tunning circuit can accommodate 1/2 wave length antennas or higher, for input resistances of 50 Ohms which make it suitable for CB (Citizen Band) transceivers. C1 is for fine tunning and C2 is just for tunning. Turning C3 with the help of C2.... -
This active antenna schematic can be used to frequency range from 10 KHz to 100 MHz. The length of the Antenna can be between 0.5 to 1 meter long. The power consumption is 20-30mA... -
All capacitors in this circuit are disc ceramic. Fixed-value resistors are 1/.-or 1/2-W carbon. Rl controls the gain of Ul. RFCl is a miniature 2.5mH rf choke. .. -
The signal booster, built around a few transistors and support components, offers an RF gain of about 12 to 18 dB .. -
This circuit is designed to make a short pull-up antenna perform like a long wire antenna, while offering no voltage gain... -
A J309 Siliconix FET feeds a 2N5109 in a wideband RF amplifier configuration. A relay is used to bypass the amp.. -
C1 = 3 750 pF 500 V silver-mica capacitor. C2= 100 pF preset capacitor (Jackson C803). C3 = 75 pF variable capacit.. -
This antenna might help to reduce power-line noise. A plastic hula hoop or conduit 3 feet in diameter, covered with aluminum foil as a shield is used for LI and L2. LI is two turns and L2 is one turn, threaded through the loop. SI selects 160- or 80-m.... -
The HF/SW receiver preamplifier is comprised of a broadband toroidal transformer (LI-a and Ll-b), LC network (comprised of a 1600-kHz, high- pass filter-and a 32-MHz, low-pass filter), L2 and L3 (26 turns of #26 enameled wire wound on an Amidon Associates.... -
A pair of diodes and a quarter-wave transmission line are used as an automatic TR switch. D1 and D2 conduct during transmit periods, short- circuiting the scanner input. In this mode,-the K-wave line appears as an open circuit... -
This antenna tuner is suitable for use with low-power (less than 5 W) transmitters or SW receivers. S2 selects inductance and S2 connects the 365-pF capacitor to either the transmitter or the side of the inductor. The tiny tuner is comprised of a tapped.... -
This preamplifier has a built-in regeneration control boost gain selectivity. CI is a single or multi-gang AM broadcast-band tuning capacitor. LI is a ferrite loop antenna, tapped at about 15 to 25% of total turns. This circuit should prove useful for.... -
100kHz-30MHz active antenna with small size, good performance, making simple, low cost and so on, the most suitable for remote medium wave and short-wave radio reception. As sh.. -
The small single turn magnetic loop (SSTML) antenna consists of a single winding inductor, about 3 feet (1 meter) in diameter, and a tuning capacitor. A second loop, which is one fifth of the diameter of the large loop, is connected to the feedline and this.... -
The Tab antenna is a folded monopole that you miniaturize by forming it into an inverted L with a downward bend at the end (Figure 1). You can solder it perpendicular to a pc board or build it as part of a pc board and place it at a corner. The folded.... -
Here's something that has always bugged me: light waves are about 5000 Angstroms in wavelength, while atoms are more like 1 Angstrom across. Atoms are thousands of times smaller than light waves, yet atoms obviously interact very strongly with light. How can.... -
Got no dough for a commercial WiFi antenna? Looking for an inexpensive way to increase the range of your wireless network? A tin can waveguide antenna, or Cantenna, may be just the ticket. This design can be built for under $5 U.S. and reuses a food, juice,.... -
Please find attached your copy of my four foot unampilfied box loop. It will tune from 525 kHz to about 1710 kHz covering the entire Broadcast Band. The umbrella stand described in the article is the type you would use for an outdoor umbrella. I fill.... -
City dwellers and other flat dwellers know the practical difficulties they encounter when they try to put up an antenna for 40 meters. Finding space enough to accommodate 67 feet of wire is a real problem for them and most of them have to be satisfied by the.... -
This circuit is designed to be used in conjunction with the standard 4 foot square loop used in MW for long distance reception... -
All ATL-3 loop windings are centre tapped and balanced w.r.t. their amplifier/receiver chassis ground, and therefore electric field interference pick up tends to self cancel. Magnetic noise fields,e.g. televisions and the electric meter box, or.... -
This circuit is for a QRP (low power) antenna tuner, a.k.a. a transmatch, for use in the short wave amateur radio bands from 3-30 Mhz. It allows a wide variety of antennas to be connected to a low power transmitter. When the circuit is properly tuned, the.... -
This Antenna is most widely used all over the world. For example, when you see a police car it has a transmitter with Ground Pole Antenna The body of car serves as ground). It accepts load from 50 ohm source and has larger power output than Half-Wave Dipole.... -
Antenna is the means by which a wireless operator puts his signal into the space and also through which he picks up the signals of the stations with which he wants to communicate. Hence after having a good Receiver and a Transmitter (or Transceiver), the.... -
An AM loop antenna is one of the true marvels of electronics. Requiring no power, it takes advantage of the resonant properties of an inductor and a capacitor connected in parallel to receive weak AM stations. The "loop" part of the antenna is the inductor,.... -
Almost any receiver covering 540 kHz to 1600 kHz is suitable for broadcast band DX`ing, and there are a lot of them. But the antenna is another matter. If you are new to the hobby, or if you have been having trouble DX`ing those really difficult stations,.... -
This new loop antenna by Graham Maynard is his best design yet and I am proud to be the first to present his work. It uses one, six foot square, six turn loop, and is aperiodic in nature, covering the frequency range 50KHz - 5000KHz... -
This antenna is made from 1/2" copper tubing and it is soldered together with plumbing tees, elbows, and nipples.... -
Antennas that are much shorter than 1/4 wavelength present a very small and highly relative impedance that is dependent on the received frequency. It is difficult to match impedances over a decade of frequency coverage. Instead, input stage Q1 is an FET.... -
The computer optimized 9 el. homebrew antenna is performing very well. I have made many long distance contacts using the ON6MU VHF Yagi antenna. I have the antenna located only 35 feet above the ground. (See antenna photo titled KC8VWM to see how high it.... -
New Circuits
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This project fits more for custom made battery casing that can have more space to hide things inside. This switch with few alterations can be used for any other project as well but is designed based on e-bike needs! This project use a clever functionality of.... -
The circuit described here uses ultrasonic oscillations and operates based on the propagation velocity of these oscillations in the air. Thus, we can easily determine the distance of two points if the time within which the wave travels this distance is.... -
Sometimes the precious metals are hidden too deep and are not detected except with complicated devices. In many cases, however, small pieces of precious metal buried near the surface can be detected by relatively simple means. Everyone is very attractive to.... -
Many times for various reasons we forget or can not water the plants that we have in our homes. And many humidity sensors units just notify us with a beeping sound or with a flashing light, that the pot needs watering. But what if we are away from home? This.... -
The principle behind a metal detector is really very simple. Proof of this is the circuit that follows, in which it proves that the construction of a metal detector can be done in the minute, with few components that we find very easily everywhere. With the.... -
The sub-harmonic bass generator is a sound producing unit for guitars. The sound it produces looks very much like that of the bass guitar. The octave generator is sometimes quite unusual since it does not produce any of the usual ways of coloring the sound,.... -
In the past the sounding (sea bottom measurement) was done with the "bullet", that is, with a heavy lead object that the seamen plucked into the sea hung from a calibrated rope. As soon as the "bullet" reached the bottom, the depth appeared directly from the.... -
This Amplifier was designed to have the following specifications: Distortion less than 0.1% at full power of 100W even at 20KHz. Power has to be attributed to an extended bandwidth. The output transistors must be protected against short circuits. The power.... -
A series of LEDs serve to alert the gardener when plants need water. Using two conventional digital integrated LEDs and a series of LEDs, we make a very useful device for gardening. The device detects the amount of water in the pot and alerts the grower.....
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