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By G8MNY                                           (New Nov 08)
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In a recent construction contest, we all had to build this QUASAR project kit
No 3063 "One Chip AM Radio". Here I have redrawn the circuit in a more logical
way.
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Construction was easy, about 30 min to do a good job. Most kits work OK.

The Tuned Radio Frequency Rx is fairly sensitive, but the high RF gain in this
not flat & there is a tendency to get RF oscillation at the high frequency end
of the band. Selectivity is surprisingly good. N.B. the IC runs at 1.2V
maintained by the 2 diodes. 1.5 of an LED is a bit too high. The 1k load & 100k
bias are said to be the optimum values for the IC's detecting & AGC action.

The AF amp is very poor, why they did not use an IC I don't know. The 1st class
A stage in run on next to no voltage so it distorts. The following class A
driver stage has too little standing current to drive the output NPN BC548 to
deliver +ve current swings into the 8 ohm LS.

There is no LW option, Ideally a 2nd coil on the ferrite rod is needed.

MY IMPROVEMENTS 
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          100K    ³    ÃÄÄÄ)Ä´ÃÄÄÂÄÄ150KÄÄ´       ³     \_/   6R8   ³
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||(  ³/|³  ³ ===  ³    ³   ÃÄÄ¿  ³ ³/     ³       ÃÄ´ÃÄÄÄ´   ³/e    ³    32ê
||( === ³  ³  ³n82³   ===  ³ _³_ ÀÄ´BC548 ³       ³n47   ÃÄÄÄ´BC    ³
||( /³ Rd  ³  oLW ³  u1³   ³ \_/   ³\e    ³   u47 ³    ³/    ³\558  ³
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          ===     ³    ³   ³ \_/     ³    ³Volume    548 ³     ³    ³  ³
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Oscillation at HF end of MW.
By adding a light damping CR across the tuned circuit stops the oscillation,
the Cd is kept very small, a 10pF, & Rd = 330k did it OK without degrading the
performance.

1st AF amp distortion fault.
Running this AF amp from +9V gives lots more unclipped gain, but the
unregulated DC feed can lead to instability with a high gain output stage, so I
cut the track to the pot & added a 10k in series to attenuate the gain a bit.

Bootstrap.
I added a bootstrap to the output by changing the 5k6 for a 1k from +9V & a 3k3
to the NPN base, with the centre tap connected to a new cap to the output NPN /
PNP. This provides a lot more +ve output drive current, without increasing the
standing current & also increased the gain.

LS.
Using a higher 32 ohm LS reduces the LS current by 4, but I did not have one &
had to make do with the 8ê, which worked OK once boxed up.

LW.
Adding a switched 820 or 910pF gave tuning over 1 LW station @ 198kHz OK. I put
it across the unused 60pF tuning cap section & switch both in circuit to gain
the max tuning range. It is not very sensitive done this way, switching the
coil to a bigger one would me much better!

ON OFF
I added an ON-OFF switch too.


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73 De John, G8MNY @ GB7CIP


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