Mindanao State University Iligan Institute of Technology

College of Engineering



50mW AM Transmitter Operating at 1650 kHz


In partial fulfilment of the course requirement in Environmental Engineering
July 9, 2014


Bullecer, Jan Benedict
Cabasag, Ian Floyd


Submitted to
Prof. Meriam Gay Bautista
Introduction
Background of the Study
In electronics and telecommunications a transmitter or radio transmitter is an electronic
device which, with the aid of an antenna, produces radio waves. There are three basic
architectures in designing low-power transmitters; the basic oscillator, master oscillator-power
amplifier, and heterodyne mixer-power amplifier --- each having its own advantages and
disadvantages over the other two.

Figure 1.1 Basic Transmitter Architecture
Low-power transmitters are made up of the same basic circuits like in any other
transmitters that serves as building blocks which are oscillators, amplifiers, multipliers,
modulators, and frequency synthesizer (PLL) circuits.
METHODOLOGY
Building the Base AM Transmitter Circuit

Fig. 2.1 AM Transmitter Circuit Diagram
The transmitter circuit uses a series-tuned Colpitts oscillator circuit which features a
relatively high-frequency stability compared to other oscillator circuits. The frequency is
determined by C1, C2, and L1. C4 and C5 affects the frequency as well but only a very small
degree.
Materials
4 10k
1 330, 2.2k, 4.7k , 50k Potentiometer, Linear Taper, 220,
3 1k
2 470
1 3-40pF Trimmer*, 220pF NPO or silver mica*, 3900pF Mylar or silver mica*, 1000pF Mylar
or silver mica*
2 0.1pF Mylar, 0.0033pF Mylar or silver mica*, 0.01F Ceramic, 10F 16V Electrolytic,
2200pF Mylar or silver mica*
1 47H, 6.8H
4 2N3904 or ECG123
1 2N3906 or ECG153
1 78L05 5V Voltage Regulator