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- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 93 16:54:25 EDT
- From: epacyna@auratek.com (Edward Pacyna)
- Message-Id: <9304302054.AA15936@auratek.com>
- To: QRP@Think.COM, uunet!hprstw.rose.hp.com!stan@uunet.UU.NET
- Subject: Re: Campbell KK7B R1 DC receiver
- Cc: ed@auratek.com
-
- Yes, I have built one. Also made many modifications to improve it. Its one of
- the better DC receivers I've built. Does have excellent DR, low noise and
- its the only DC receiver I've heard that actually has the tonal quality that
- everyone talks about. The filtering is really nice. A summary of the chages
- are:
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- 1. Elimated L2 and R2 from the diplexer to improve AM suppression (I live near
- an AM broadcaster). Also lowered all the high pass filter corner frequencies
- because I like to copy a lower beat note than 750Hz. As shown, there all
- above 300Hz, which is fine for SSB.
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- 2. Rebiased the 50 ohm audio preamp for proper operation with a 13.5V supply.
- Also used a ultra low noise transistor at Q1.
-
- 3. Improved the 7th order eliptical filter. Author scaled values from another
- authors SSB design. Tightened up the filter quite a bit. See attached.
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- 4. Improved the biasing and changed the gain distribution a bit on both U2A
- and U2B.
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- 5. The power amp had a Icq of 100ma and gets quite hot. Don't need to generate
- this kind of heat and use this much power. Rebiased the power amp to idle
- much lower (10 -20 ma). Fidelity is still excellent.
-
- 73's Ed W1AAZ
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- 0 DB * * * * * <--- Fc = 850 Hz ______ __
- A | Ripple = .18 DB* |
- t | |
- t | * Stop Band Attenuation
- e | (70 DB Minimum)
- n 50 | S.F. = 1.4:1--> * |
- u | (6:60 DB) |
- a | * * *_____|__
- t |
- i | * *
- o 100 | * * *
- n |________________________*___*_________________*
- | | | |
- 0 500 1000 1500 2000 Hertz
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- Frequency
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- Figure 1. Frequency Response (7th order E.L.P.F)
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- 120.8 MH 98.8 MH 99.8 MH
- (120) (100) (100)
- o--------x----UUUUUU----x-----UUUUUU-----x---UUUUUU-----x-------o
- | | | |
- x-----| |------x------| |-------x----| |-------x
- | .036uF | .17uF | .12uF |
- Z = | (.033) | (.18) | (.12) | Z =
- 500 .47uF--- .68uF--- .63uF--- .40uF--- 500
- (.47)--- (.68)--- (.68)--- (.39)---
- | | | |
- o--------x | | x-------o
- --- --- --- ---
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- Note: Values shown are calculated. ( ) are the nearest standard value.
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- Figure 2 Schematic - Elliptical Low Pass Filter (7th order)
-