Analog & Digital Communication

Project Title:

Long Range FM Transmitter

Group Members:

Gull Saleem 10-ENC-39 Muhammad Haseeb Iftikhar 10-ENC-49

Project Summary: The use of transmitters which have a more powerful output than the flea-power are sometimes required when there are many obstacles in the path of the surveillance transmitter and monitoring station receiver, or the distance between them is too far so as to make a low powered device feasible. Whereas a typical micro transmitter will produce an RF power in the order of just a few mill watts, i.e. a few thousandths of a watt, the VHF-FM transmitter has a power output of between around a half and 2 watts, depending on the power source, which may be anywhere between 6 volts and 30 volts d.c. The battery or batteries should be of the alkaline high power type, since the current drain will be found to be relatively higher when compared to micro transmitter current drain. The RF field that is generated by this transmitter is relatively large, the problem of RF feedback may very well be encountered. This may be overcome by placing the transmitter inside a metal enclosure, keeping all internal wiring as short as possible and the aerial wire.