30MHz Remote Control Receiver

My wife wanted a remote control system to switch on her garden water pump some 100 meters away in our backyard.
I have plenty of 30MHz crystals which I can turn one of them into an AM transmitter. After messing around with
many off-the-shelf RC encoder and decoder chips - I had no luck. So I turned to the old day TONE DECODER. After
all it's just a single channel water pump (not a drone flight controller eg.,) that we are doing here.
The transmitter is made of a Colpitts oscillator, 1 KHz modulator and an RF amplifier (approx. 100mW). With just
a 70-cm whip antenna it can transmit the 30MHz RF signal to a distance beyond what is required in the backyard.
Below - is the receiver. BF998 mixes incoming 30MHz with the 30.455MHz local oscillator. I also have lots of
TA7640 and LA1260 in my junkbox that I thought I'd give the 7640 a try. Well, it works great although the
LA1260 does not need a second IF transformer in its AM demodulation circuitry. Anyway, Q4 brings up the 1KHz
tone from the transmitter to the level required by the NE567 PLL decoder chip. When NE567 detects the incoming
1KHz it drives pin 8 to ground (this pin is tied to Vcc via 4K7
which means Q5 is always ON and Q6 always OFF in the absence of
the tone from the transmitter.

Antenna
Food box painted white

I placed the receiver in a plastic food box and left it under the
sun. The only problem was with the local oscillator - it shifted
when the clear plastic box was hit by direct sunlight. So I painted
the outside of the box with white paint. From then on, LO never
shifted and the box turned on the pump everytime I pressed RUN on
the transmitter from inside the living room 100 meters away.
By : Rudy Young
email : linda_arun@live.com

Power supply

TA7640

Local oscillator

BF998

12VDC
+

100
100

100

.047

G2
G1

33

16

15

14

13

12

11

10

AM
Mix
Out

FM
IF
Input

AM
IF
Bypass

AM
IF

AM
IF
Bypass

FM
Quadrature

VCC

AF Out

IC1 TA7640

AM
Mix
In

AM
Mix
Bypass

AM
Local
Oscillator

Regulator

AM
IF
Coil

RSSI

GND

.01

.047

455 KHz
IFT

47

100

8VDC

100K

Q2

10K

Q3

33
56

10K

30.455 MHz

10K

10

+
10

BC547

22
8VDC

33

.01

22

NE567

1
2

O/P Filtr
Loop Filtr

GND

3 I/P

Osc C

Osc R

VCC

33K
2K2
10K

Q4

100K 100K

100K

IC2

220K
DC
Amp

1K

1K

1KHz

240

9 turns

Relay

.1

4K7

.01

Q5
Q6

12V relay

.1

Q1

.01

NE567

.1

.047

455 KHz
IFT

BF998

Q4

8VDC
.1

2 turns
9 turns

IFT 2

IFT 1

47

27

1K

1K

.2

Q5

BC549

Q6

BC549