Discriminator hack for the Albrecht AE67H scanner


Based on http://www.discriminator.nl/ae65h/index-en.html

To get rid of the ~700kHz sawtooth IF-component signal (sorry, we forgot to take picturs of the oscilloscope showing the IF-component...) we used a lowpath filter made of a 12k ohm resistor and a 2.2nF capacitor to filter out interferencing signals higher than 6kHz.


The opened device. Sorry for the bad quality of the picture.
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A wire for testing soldered to the discriminator output.
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The RC circuit.
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Some shrinking hose for the RC circuit... not a good idea, because we forgot to solder the wire for the output...
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Shrinking hose removed, wire attached :)
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Shrinking hose rocks...
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Capacitor soldered to ground.
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Resistor soldered to discriminator output.
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Quite finished...
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Without the lowpath filter, we had a strong ~700kHz sawtooth IF-component, with the filter, only nice atmospheric noise ;) Sorry, we had no testsender to show a clean signal.
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Attached RCA jack
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Mail your comments or suggestion for improvement to
Tobias 'grondhal' Hain th@g23.org
I'll publish it here (if you agree)