FM Audio Transmitter

Andrew Suk and Mike Portscheller

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Professor Swenson TA Julio Urbina

Introduction

Goals
To design and build an FM transmitter that allows you to listen to your portable audio devices in your car To learn about Frequency Modulation with a 3 transistor circuit

BENEFITS
Very cheap Much cheaper than buying and installing an audio system in a car

Overview
Block Diagram Process of circuit design Theoretical and Data analysis Demonstration Room for improvement Conclusion

Block Diagram

Detailed Block Diagram

Process of circuit design

First circuit design

The good and bad of circuit one

Good
Very cheap and simple, only one transistor Easy to build with high probability of working

Bad
Takes 5-10 minutes for the transmitter to reach thermal equilibrium

Process of circuit design

Second circuit design

The good and bad of circuit two

Good
Two transistor to amplify signal before the VCO

Bad
Very sensitive. Hard to get a stable signal

Our design

Good
Three transistors, but still very easy and cheap to build Very stable

Bad
Frequency pulling, but still stable signal

Theoretical Analysis

Transfer function
Small signal diagram

Data Analysis

Power input = 18 mW
Power at antenna with 1k resistor = (3.21v)(3.21v)/1k = 10.30 mW

Efficiency = 0.5724

Demonstration
Will

it work?

Room for improvement

Antenna
At 98.5 MHz needed a 3.04 meter antenna for full wavelength Try other sizes such as half wavelength and quarter at 1.52 and 0.76 meters respectively

Antenna design

At 98.5 Mhz
Quarter wave = 0.76 meters Half wave = 1.52 Full wave = 3.04

Room for improvement

Antenna Marketable case Adjustable inductor to change frequency

Conclusion

Optimization
Buy a dipole antenna (none in town)

Conclusion

Learning
How to build an FM transmitter Optimization techniques Applications of ECE 210, 342, and 359 in real life engineering

More Information
www.radioshack.com

Summary
Block Diagram of FM Transmitter Process of circuit design Theoretical and Data analysis Demonstration Room for improvement Conclusion

Conclusion

Questions?