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    ‘Number 7 0n your Feedback card The Explorer HF receiver for 40 and 80 meters. by Paul G. Daulton KSWMS unique application for the Sig- ‘TDA7000 FM Receiver chip: as 4 (wo-tund, 80 and 40 meter, CW and SSB receiver. How, you are asking, do you re ceive CW and SSB on an FM system? I only used the oscillator and mixer sections is an ‘on-frequency product detector or direct con- version receiver. Performance exceeds exis ing designs using the NEOO2. There sno available for this receiver, but sufficient in- is article to duplicate What Ihave done or to design your own re- NE-602 Designs Direct conversion receivers using the Sig neties NE-602 IC chips have made quite a stir with home builders in the last three or four years. Basically @double-balanced mix- ex with an on-board oscillator and associated regulator components, the NE-602 in combi- nation with $0 or 250 mW audio amplifier makes an excellent direct conversion receiv- er with only a minimum of support compo- nents. [have built two of the Neophyte re- ccivers (OST. February 1988). the Ramsey FHR-8080 kit, anda couple of home-brew de- signs. The Sudden Receiver in the October 1091.73 Maparine i anther fine example of an NE602 application. Direct conversion receivers using the NFAO? and TMI86 do have 4 couple of drawbacks. The worst is lack of dynami range. Most designs prove for an attenua- tor pot on the input. The operator must con stantly ride the gain, say when listening to a round table on 75 meters when the stronger signals dive the 602 into distortion. Second, the NE6O2 with an LM386 audio output stage has insufficient volume to drive a speaker toa comfortable listening evel. The NE6O2 has a maximum voltage rating of & volts, ‘The TDA7000 Advantage ‘The TDA7000 operates at 12 volts, This, in combination with an LM386 output stage, has plenty of audio to drive a 3° or 4" speak er. Front-end overload is not a problem. The ‘TDATO0O was designed as a receiver front end for cordless phones, Walkman radios, and the like. The NE602, on the other hand, was designed as a second IF for cellular Phones where it operates in a more steady- state condition, Just by coincidence I noticed the similari- 90 73 Amateur Racio Today + August, 1992 Photo A. Final version of the Explorer HF receiver with the cover removed, ty of the NE602 to the TDA7000, The ‘TDATO00 is an 18-pin dip with a mixer, an oscillator, and two op amps for audio fre- quency (70 kHz) IF stages, muting, and FM detector stages. I built the first prototype on a Radio Shack experimenter's socket, using only the oscillator and mixer of the ‘TDA7000. For audio I used a Radio Shack smini-amplifier speaker. Coils were wound for 80 meters on 1” sections of the barrel of, a RIC pen. This nly tnok about 0 minutes to throw together. Performance of the first prototype was so good I quickly (in 45 min- tutes) tansferred the parts to a perfboard, adding a VFO coil for 40 meters. All this took place between 10 p.m. and midnight on a Saturday night. Performance of the prototype TDA7000 roceiver was better than the other direct con- version receivers I have built using the NE6O2. 1 was particularly interested in de- veloping a design that could be given to the local Explorer Scouts, something that the youngsters could build even if they had to buy the parts one piece ata time. As a result, 1've tried to specify parts that ate available ata local Radio Shack store ‘The only parts in this design not available 7 Lo wi Lee fon Figure 1. Diagram of the basic direct con- at Radio Shack stores are the TDA7000, the vvaricap diode, and the vernier dial drive. Al- though Radio Shack used wo carry dhe TDA7000 IC, they discontinued carrying while [ was designing this circuit. However, DC Elecironies, plone ny: (800) 423-0070, in Scottsdale, Arizona, lists this device for '$5.95 in their recent catalog. This is about $3 ‘more than the NNESO2, Dut the extra cost is ‘more than offset by the increased perform- ance and circuit simplicity. The varicap ‘diode 1s an EUG replacement and can be or- dered through most Radio Shack stores, or ‘a change in layout a 365 pF air variable could be used in its place. The dial drive and tuning cap are a matter of builder's choice. I suggest a sturdy double-bearing capacitor for the VEO tuning cap. This could be salvaged from an old tube-type AM radio. An alter- nate for the tuning cap using the 440 pF ECG618 varicap and a potentiometer is shown on the schematic diagram. Construction ‘The final version presented here was built in a RS# 270-274 cabinet with dimensions of 3-1/16" x 8-1/4" x 6-1/8". This is the mini- ‘mum size I would recommend for a small re- ceiver of this kort You need panel space far ‘a reasonable size dial and room to operate the controls. The main tuning dial is a vemicr drive of unknown origin, with brass ‘wire fora pointer. A 3" x 5° file card was eut down and lettered for the scale. This is held in place with vinyl tape. I tried to duplicate the look of the old National MCN dial as- ‘sembly that was so popular back in the "50s and '60s. Dry transfer letters were used on the panel, with an overspray of clear acrylic aerosol. The speaker grill is a piece of matc- tial called plastic canvas, available at most iscoumt retail and craft siores. A word of ‘order if you plan to mount the in the Radio Shack cabinet. Find an electrician with a hydraulic operated knock ‘out punch to make the hole. This cabinet ‘made of a very tough, thin, spring steel. I ru- ined a fly cutter and a hole saw trying (0 ‘make the hole forthe speaker. Either punch a large hole or drill @ grid of small holes for the speaker. used a 3" x 4” piece of copper-clad phe- nolic, glued 0 the bottom of the cabinet, ‘copper face up, to mount the components and terminal strips. All ground connections are made to the copper fol. IC sockets were 4 bo Figure 2. Schematic diagram of the Explorer 80 and 40 meter receiver. soldered to RS part no. 276-159A IC experi- ‘menter’s boards. Note from the pictures that this board is turned upside down for easy ac- cess to the solder terminals, and mounted on stand-off bushings. You could also glue this to the copper foil with a piece of insulating material between the board and the foil 10 prevent shoris caused by solder leaking through the holes. This type of construction was popularized by Bill Hoisington KICLL. hack in the 1060s in many 73 Magazine arti cles. Solid conductor wire was used for point- to-point wiring. Twisted pairs were used on the leads going to the audio gain control to ¢liminate hum. Bandswitching is acco plished by switching only the VFO coils. ‘The two-terminal oscillator circuit of the ‘TDA7000 simplifies this. A varactor diode tunes the antenna coil 10 the desired band, Photo B. Top view of TDA7000 receiv ‘board (eft) and the With the values shown, this coil will tune from 3 t0 11 MHz. It would be very simple to-add 30 meters to this receiver with the ap- propriate coil and capacitor values in the ‘VEO section. Both 50 ohm link coupling and a high impedance input are provided on the receiver input. | originally intended to build an active antenna stage into this re- ceiver, but I found this was not necessary. It will perform amazingly well with a 310 15° pce of wire connected tothe Hi-7, inp Coils T wound my coils on plastic tubing pur- chased at a local hobby shop. Glue oF tape the fis tum down, wind the coil with a cou- ple of extra turns, and coat the coil with clear fingernail polish. I may soem strange not to have any adjustment on the coils or trimmer capacitors for calibration, but once you have the VFO in operation itomly takes a few minutes to jue the tuning range by peel- ing one turn at atime off the coils or soldering fixed values fof capacitance to rales and low cr the tuning range. Lowering the inductance by peeling off tums rales the frequency and sreases the range of band- spread from minimum to maxi tum capacity of the VEO cx. pacitor. Adding capacity in pa- allel to the VEO coil produces the opposite effect. I made the scale to match what | ‘wound up with. 1 mounted the coils vertically by gluing the audio amplifier board (right). Antenna coil is shown in the COUS vetically by sling the ‘upper left and the VFO coils are shown in the lower left. All sockets and components are mounted on the copper foil Side of the prototype board (available from Radio Shack) The extra IC socket on the audio board is for furure expan- with Super-Glue. ‘Audio If you want you can omit the 82 73 Amateur Radio Today + August, 1902 LM386 audio stage and purchase a mini- amplifier speaker, RS part no. 277-1008, or use whatever audio amp you have available. used one of the op amp IF stages in the ‘TDA7000 for audio selectivity. then later both op amps (see Figure 3). The first is a Salion-Key low-pass filter witha cutoff fre- ‘quency of 2000 Hz. The second op amp is a bandpass filter. Components were sclected to give a bandpass of 300 to 2500 Hz for SSB reception. Formulas for using the op amp IF filters are avaiable from Radio Shack included an application data sheet with their TDA7000. This data is available in the 1988 Archer semiconductor application manual. I would suggest you build the receiver as shown in the main schematic before proceeding with the audio filter. Dave NSKRN runs the output of his receiver into a Kenwood audio graphic equalizer and then to a 2 watt audio amp with & pair of large speakers. You have to hea thie combination to believe the quality {EdNote: use only C8 if no filter is used, C8A for the low-pass filter or C8B for the Iondpacs ler] Performance ‘Minimum discernible signal as best as 1 ‘can measure is less than 0.2 microvolts. My ‘ancient Measurements Model 80 is not RF tight enough to measure this weak a signal ‘The figure of 0.2 microvolts was arrived at by “hardening” the generator output with a 20 dB pad and scaling back to arrive at the MDS of 0.2 microvolts. Stability is quite ‘good. All caps usod in the frequency-deter- ‘mining circuits were NPO disk ceramic. Use polystyrene or silver mica types if you wish. For daytime operation I generally use a

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