FM Radio Circuits
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The design philosophy for this circuit was centered on replacing all of the op-amp circuitry found in the earlier circuits with discrete transistors and LC filters. The previous circuits had many (high quality) op-amps in series, this resulted in audible.... -
This circuit was built to stabilize a radio frequency VFO (Variable Frequency Oscillator) for ham radio applications. The circuit has also been used to lower the drift of a Ramsey FM10a micropower FM transmitter... -
Here are some utility circuits for use with the Ramsey FM10a, and other small FM stereo transmitter kits. This information may be helpful for setting up a micro powered FM radio station. The FM10a and similar kits tend to put out a low quality, broad band.... -
The PMR VHF transceiver Motorola Radius M110 (in further text referred as M110) was manufactured by Motorola GmbH therefore being an European radio. Since many professional radio service users has replaced this transceiver with newer gear, a considerable.... -
The FM broadcast band was moved immediately after World War II from its original spot just below 50 Mc to the present 88-108 Mc band. Hallicrafters was one company to offer receiving converters for those who had the old FM radio sets. The offerings.... -
This is the simplest possible design. The local oscillator of the receiver is adjusted slightly so that its second harmonic can be used for mixing. RF leakage from the local oscillator is sufficient to drive this crystal diode mixer, which has an output at....
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This is a one tube (6J5) plus diode (1N34) circuit that converts any 8 Mc of the new FM band to the old FM band. It is assembled on a U-shaped piece of aluminum and mounted inside the radio set. I built one using old parts and carefully followed the....
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Here is my design for a modern receiving converter for pre-war FM sets. Accordingly, this article presents a design for listening to present day FM stations on a prewar FM set based on a MOSFET transistor and a TTL (transistor-transistor logic) packaged.... -
A simple FM transmitter links your home-entertainment system to a portable radio that can be carried around the house and into the back yard. For example, you can play music on the CD changer in your living room, and listen to it on a portable radio by the.... -
Here is the latest and greatly improved TX200 VFO/VCO FM transmitter. The most versatile transmitter to date that can be turned into high fidelity stereo PLL based 200mW FM transmitter. It is a perfect circuit for transmitting your music around the house and.... -
Here it is a brand new TX300 FM transmitter. The amplifier has exactly the same architecture as TX500 with the difference that TX300 has only one stage variable VHF amplifier. It is a cute schematic that was made for all of you who wanted something even.... -
The TX500 is a simple to build 500mW FM Transmitter. It consists of three blocks; modulator / oscillator, two stage 500mW VHF amplifier and LED based power meter. The TX500 allows to transmit audio signals to FM band at frequencies from 88 MHz to 108 MHz..... -
Here is the schematic, PC board pattern, and parts placement for a low powered FM transmitter. The range of the transmitter when running at 9V is about 300 feet. Running it from 12V increases the range to about 400 feet. This transmitter should not be used.... -
The Project Long Range Remote Control can be used to remotely control a number of Electrical or Electronic Gadgets connected to it. Unlike Infra Red remote control, this Project employs FM transmission and Reception, and hence it can be used for.... -
Connect two 24 V / 3 W bulbs in parallel to the output and set the right frequency on PLL. Now turn on the transmitter. You should tune it on a receiver. Maybe you might stretch coils of the L1. Fix the L1 in position when the tuning voltage (on C4) is in.... -
Audio signals as music or speech have big dynamic ranges. There are silent and loud sections. These audio signals aren't too good for a transmitter, which requires audio signal with constant level on the input. Limiter is a device, which weakens loud signals.... -
The transmitter includes RDS/SCA input and Audio/MPX input with optional preemphasis. It can be used with or without stereo encoder. Tuning over the FM band is provided by two buttons that control dual-speed PLL. The transmitter can work also without the LCD.... -
The circuit is a modified Colpitts oscillator, tuned with MV209 varactor diodes. The resonating inductor and the drain choke are selected by a rotary switch. 1N5711 Schottky diode, D, clamps the maximum positive voltage on the gate of oscillator FET, Q1 to.... -
This section describes an experimental low power, low bandwidth data signaling system that operates at 100 MHz (In the FM broadcast band in the U.S.). Before operating a radio transmitter, find out what kind of transmitter operation, if any, is permitted in.... -
This circuit uses a small microphone to capture the sound and some transistors to generate radio waves that can be picked up by a FM receiver like a car stereo. The first part is the microphone and some resistors to get it working. Next we have a capacitor.... -
This is the latest BH1417 FM Transmitter design from RHOM that includes a lot of features in one small package. It comes with pre-emphasis, limiter so that the music can be transmitted at the same audio level, stereo encoder for stereo transmission, low pass.... -
Based on Valvo FD-1A module, TBA120, and MC1310. Operation of the receiver is based on the phase locked loop principle. The FD-1A contains an RF amplifier, oscillator and mixer (made with BF324, BF451 and BF324 transistors, respectively). Tuning is performed.... -
Two conventional amplifier stages built with SF215 transistors are linked by ceramic 10.7MHz IF filters, and followed by an FM demodulator built with a TBA120T i.c. Straight from the databook. Output goes via a 100k log potmeter (not shown) to the audio.... -
V_logic is connected to the power supply Vs and all ground are connected to the negative terminal of the battery. Fout is a square wave of varying frequency with a maximum amplitude of Vs. A voltage divider is needed (200k and 10k variable resistor connected.... -
You'll find that this is a very easy project to build. It will transmit good quality sound in the FM band ( 88 - 108 mhz ). One inportant item is that the IC chip operates on 3 volts DC. The chip will get destroyed if it is operated on any voltage higher.... -
A Selective Amplifier 10dB for FM/VHF region. Note that some devices to be used SMD components and may have a minimum sales volume. Device works very well as an FM external amplifier "when used for example in car / boat etc . Thanks to GF3 filter, amplifier.... -
This is the basic fm trasmitter that I built. In theory, according to electronics, it shouldn't work but works fine and is very sensitive. It can transmit the signal up to 45 yards (about 40 meters) . A sensitive FM radio can pick up the signal up to 100.... -
The achievement of this 30 watt amp was thought to take place on a heatsink microprocessor PC. Equipped with its fans, the advantage of this method of cooling was chosen for the fact it is common and not very expensive. The size of the printed circuit will.... -
This new FM transmitter is very easy to make and doesn't need any RF tuning. First of all ,we have used an integrated VCO: The POS150 from Mini-circuits. This excellent RF circuit covers all the FM Band in a voltage range of 4V to 8V. The Kvco factor is very.... -
In order to simplify the transmitter design, we've used the new pll circuit from Motorola :the MC145170. This PLL includes the prescaler and a serial standard bus called SPI. We advise to use the P2 version that fixes some init issues during the Power Up..... -
This Power amplifier is equiped with a bipolar transistor,the famous MRF317. As lots of FM amplifier application ,the power transistor is in a C class bias. All the impedance networks (Input & Output) have been determined by using the software: Mimp.EXE. A 9.... -
This circuit can be used to recieve AM stations in an FM radio. Is a regenerative circuit that samples AM signals of all frequency and retransmits them in the FM band or in TV band...
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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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