
175Experiment 10: Regenerative AM Receiver
varying magnetic field from incoming radio waves. The variable
capacitor C6 and L2 together form a resonance circuit; you
select the reception frequency by adjusting the capacitance of
C6. The resonance circuit is connected to the amplifier input
pins 2 and 3.
Now, you may ask, how does the LM386 demodulate the
signal? Just amplifying an AM signal is not enough to recover
the audio. Honestly, I don’t know the complete answer. There
has to be an effect like that of the diode in the “crystal” radio
in Experiment 1, recovering the audio by rectifying the radio-
frequency signal. The base-emitter junction ...