Re: AM receiver convert to ATC receiver


"Archimedes" <shelton.dcruz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all

If I change the tank circuit components (reduce the capacitance and
inductance) and change the transistors to appropriate VHF ones, will I
be able to pick up ATC (Air Traffic Conversations) using this
circuit ?

http://www.electronics-lab.com/projects/rf/006/index.html

Thanks
Shelton.

Not likely. I doubt you'd ever get that circuit to work at VHF frequencies
no matter what you did with the resonant circuit portion. There are many
problems including wrong impedances for the various parasitic capacitances.

Secondly air traffic stuff is FM I believe.


.

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