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AIR Transparency Monitor, Xenon Flash Receiver - I designed this receiver circuit many years ago to monitor the quality of a mile long column of air for future optical communications experiments.  The transmitter system   (circuit 72 below) uses a powerful xenon flash in conjunction with a large 12 inch. . . Circuit by David A. Johnson P.E.-June, 2000

AIR Transparency Monitor-Pg2 - This is Page 2 of the receiver circuit AIR TRANSPARENCY MONITOR, XENON FLASH RECEIVER. . . Circuit by Dave Johnson P.E.-June, 2000

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An Audio-Noise-Based Voting -  As hand-held transceivers (H-Ts) become smaller, and low power, battery conserving operation becomes more popular, the disparity between the transmitting range of a typical 100 watt repeater compared to the repeater accessing range of a typical 1 watt or less H-T becomes more and more apparent.  How often have you found it difficult (or impossible) to access a repeater with a low power H-T even though you can hear the repeater at full quieting? This can happen even if the repeater is equipped with a high sensitivity, state-of-the-art receiver.   __ Designed by Mark Kolber  WB2WHC

An automatically tuned HF Mobile antenna -  This elegant design covers the complete spectrum from 7 to 30 MHz at less than 1.3:1 SWR, is compact, very weatherproof, robust and has good performance.  This article was first published in the QEX / Communication Quarterly magazine.  The article comes in five pages, with lots of photos, mechanical drawings, schematic diagram, PCB layout and software listing.  Exact duplication is not for the faint of heart, but some of you may find individual parts and ideas useful for your own projects!  __ Designed by Manfred Mornhinweg

An end-fed antenna -  A piece of wire of almost any length can be used as an antenna on the HF bands.  However, just because an antenna can be made to work is no guarantee that it will perform efficiently.  This article will initially concentrate on the half wavelength of wire and its useamateur radio construction projects.   __ Designed by Peter Parker VK3YE

An Inexpensive Tone Encoder -  Figure 1 illustrates an easy circuit that can be constructed with mostly Radio Shack parts on any general purpose circuit board.  The only rigid requirement is that capacitor C1 be stable over a wide temperature range.  Use only Mylar, Polyester or Metal film for capacitor C1.  The frequency is determined by the following formula: FREQUENCY = 1/R1C1The specified values should allow any tone between 100 to 300 Hz.  increase R1 or add another resistor in series with R1 for lower tone frequencies __ Designed by Radio Amateur Society of Norwich

Antenna & RF preamp for weather satellites -  All the details for a simple turnstile/reflector antenna plus an RF preamp that mounts up on the mast to really drag on those satellite images.__ SiliconChip

Antenna 1/4 wave for 940 to 980MHz easy homemade  -  My Radio amateur callsign is OZ2CPU.  I like to use Atmel AVR Atmega PIC 16 PIC 16F876 PIC 16F84.  Most electronics easy made for the novice and something is for the more experienced.   __ Designed by Thomas Scherrer OZ2CPU

Antenna height measurement made easy  -  My Radio amateur callsign is OZ2CPU.  I like to use Atmel AVR Atmega PIC 16 PIC 16F876 PIC 16F84.  Most electronics easy made for the novice and something is for the more experienced.   __ Designed by Thomas Scherrer OZ2CPU

Antenna Projects -  Specifications and designs are subject to change without notice.
Use on your own risk. __ Designed by Mijo Kovacevic, S51KQ

Antenna Switch for Dicke Switching Receivers -  This is a Radio Astronomy Project __ Designed by Radio-Sky Publishing

Antenna Tuning Unit -  A simple passive (no power required) circuit to match an antenna to a radio receiver.  This will be a useful addition to the short wave listener, but in addition a medium wave coil is almost used to tune the medium wave band.   __ Designed by Andy Collison

Antennas for Low Power Applications -  There seems to be little information on compact antenna design for the low power wireless field.  Good antenna design is required to realize good range performance.  A good antenna requires it to be the right
type for the application.  it also must be matched and tuned to the transmitter and receiver.  To get the best results, a designer should have an idea about how the antenna works, and what the important design
considerations are.  This paper should help to achieve effective antenna design.   __ Designed by Kent Smith

Antennas for the space-restricted -  amateur radio construction projects.   __ Designed by Peter Parker

Antennas-Includes longwire, loading coil, active ferrite antenna, active short antenna, vertical. -  Home-made antennas can greatly improve the performance of AM and FM radios, short-wave receivers, and scanners.  if you are a talk-radio fan then experiment with the AM band antennas and you will be able to hear shows from all over the country with surprising clarity.  Short-wave receivers are always coping with weak signals and they must have a good antenna to perform adequately.  Scanners can pick up local police and two-way radio with the little telescoping antenna provided but with good antennas a scanner becomes an amazing ear on the world nearby.  No pre-amp, filter or other receiver refinement offers anywhere near the level of performance improvement t that a well-designed antenna offers.  The results can be quite satisfying, leaving no doubt that the project was well worth the effort __  Contact:  Charles Wenzel of Wenzel Associates, Inc.

AP2000 VHF reconstructed to a DUAL VCO Police Scanner with PIC & LCD -  My Radio amateur callsign is OZ2CPU.  I like to use Atmel AVR Atmega PIC 16 PIC 16F876 PIC 16F84.  Most electronics easy made for the novice and something is for the more experienced.   __ Designed by Thomas Scherrer OZ2CPU

Arduino-Based FM Receiver -  This project is an FM receiver circuit radio based on Philips TEA5767 digital radio-receiver module.  The radio receiver uses i2C interface with Arduino UNO development board.  The TEA5767 module offers such...__ Electronics Projects for You

Asynchronous Divides Frequency by 1.5 -  10/10/96 EDN Design Ideas:  in some designes, you need to provide a number of phase-related clocks to various components.  in most cases, you generate the needed clocks by dividing a master clock by a power of two (synchronous division).  However, sometimes, it is desireable to divide a frequency by an odd or even fractional divisor.  in these cases, no synchronous method exists without generating a higher frequency master clock.  Figure 1 shows the block diagram of an asynchronous clock divider that provide as division by a factor of 1.5. Design by Rolf Fielder, Ferrari Electronic GmbH, Teltow, Germany

ATL3 Loop Antenna -  All ATL-3 loop windings are centre tapped and balanced w.  r.  t.  their amplifier/receiver chassis ground, and therefore electric field interference pick up tends to self cancel.  Magnetic noise fields, e.  g.  televisions and the electric meter box, or __ Designed by Graham Maynard

ATV Repeater Controllers -  Specifications and designs are subject to change without notice.
Use on your own risk. __ Designed by Mijo Kovacevic, S51KQ

Audible S-Meter -  hand-drawns schematic only __ Designed by byon Garrabrant N6BG

Audio/Video Sender -  This circuit provides you with wireless audio and visual transmission to a TV.  The TV acts as a receiver, eliminating the need to buy a separate monitor.  You can also hook it up to a VCR or CCD Camera, and even set up a remote CCTV security system! Circuit design __ Contact info @ wzmicro.com

Automatic Gain Control AGC -  This project is a digital Automatic Gain Control (AGC) system using a PIC 16F876 MCU.  The ability to set the gain level in a circuit and have it control itself is a very useful function.  This circuit is a building block of another project I am working on.  A 30W power amp for either the PCS, iDEN or CDMA frequency bands.  I will settle on one of those frequencies sometime soon.   __ Designed by steevn.geo @ yahoo.com

Automatic Repeater -  This circuit will be of interest toradio amateur and anyone possessing two radios, (one of which must be able to transmit i.  e.  a transceiver).  it is a self powered (audio derived) repeater circuit for receiving a signal and re-transmitting it viaor radio.   __ Designed by Miroslav Adzic

Automatic Tuner-Tranceiver Interface ATTI for IntelliTune MFJ-993 (TM) by OZ2BKK (updated 4'th of october 2005) -  PIC 16F876 based circuit controlling the Yaesu FT-817, FY-857 and FT-897 from the intelliTune MFJ-993 tuner (made in May 2005)  __ Designed by Bjarke Korsgaard

Automicro RX3302 receiver Module photo -  Schematic Only __ Designed by Peter Jakab, Electrical Engineer, Engineer of Informatics

Aviation Band Receiver -  Figure 1 shows a schematic diagram of the Aviation Receiver--a super heterodyne AM (Amplitude Modulated) unit built around four IC 's: an NE602 double balanced mixer (U1) , an MC1350 linear iF amplifier (U2) , an LM324 quad op-amp (U3) , and an LM386 audio amplifier (U4).  in operation, an antenna that plugs into J1 picks up the AM signal.  That signal is then coupled through C1 to a three-section, tuned-filter network consisting of L1-L5 and C2-C6 __ Designed by Tony van Roon  VA3AVR

AVR Based Serial Port IR Receiver -  This is a simple iR receiver circuit which plugs into a serial port of a computer.  Okay, there are many other circuits of this kind, and most of them are even simpler, but this circuit has two major advantages: (1) it uses an Atmel AVR RiSC microcontroller (an AT90S2313) instead of the usual PIC  microcontroller and (2) it uses a MAX232 for the generation of valid RS232 levels.   __ Designed by Klaus Stock

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