Booster for Cable Radio

Published:2012/10/11 21:09:00 Author:muriel | Keyword: Booster, Cable Radio | From:SeekIC

With the aid of this circuit it is possible to listen, using a portable VHF FM radio, to listen to stations that transmit only your local cable network. Both from its properties and its design this ‘cable booster’ appears similar to an antenna amplifier, because this is a two-stage amplifier with two common RF transistors type BF199.Only this time, the input is connected to the cable connection instead of an antenna while the output does not contain a coaxial connection but a tuned circuit that acts as impedance matching for a 1/4λ-antenna. If the circuit is tuned correctly (using trimmer C8), the amplified cable signal is radiated by the vertical antenna and can be easily received by a portable receiver up to three metres away. Cable radio booster circuit diagram It is always possible to build the circuit on a piece of prototyping board, but because an RF-circuit is usually a little more critical it will probably work a lot better if you make use of the PCB layout shown here. During the design, the essential connections have been kept short and the ground plane has been made as large as possible. Capacitor C7 is best directly connected to the tap on L1, as can be seen in the photo. The (air-cored) coil consists of three turns of 1-mm enamelled copper wire (ECW) wound around a pencil (diameter about 8 mm). Cable radio amplifier PCB layout



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