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Radio and Electronics Cookbook
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Radio and Electronics Cookbook

by RSGB
November 2000
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
7h 43m
English
Newnes
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A portable radio for medium waves

Introduction

The ZN415E integrated circuit (IC) can be used to make a very efficient AM portable MW broadcast radio with a built-in loudspeaker. Here’s how!

The circuit

Figure 1 shows the circuit diagram of the portable radio. It’s not as complicated as it may appear, especially after you have got started. L1 is a coil of wire mounted on a ferrite rod, acting as an aerial; VC1 is a variable capacitor which works, with L1, to tune in different stations. IC1 contains circuits of its own which boost the selected signal and it includes a detector which extracts the audio signal from the incoming RF signal. Earphones could be connected to the output of IC1 (between pins 4 and 5), but the output would not be ...

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