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English: A circuit of an inductively-coupled crystal radio receiver with impedance matching. This type of circuit, called a "two circuit" or "loose coupler" receiver, was used in most sophisticated crystal receivers from the wireless telegraphy era which ended in the 1920s, until today. Instead of a single tuning coil, it has an antenna coupling transformer (L1,L2) which improves the poor selectivity found in most crystal receivers. Each coil functions as a tuned circuit; the primary L1 resonating with the capacitance of the antenna and the primary tuning capacitor C1 and the secondary resonating with the secondary tuning capacitor C2. The two tuned circuits interact, resulting in a much narrower bandwidth (higher Q) than a single tuned circuit when the two coils are loosely coupled. However looser coupling also reduces the amount of signal getting through the transformer. So the coupling was made adjustable. When interference was encountered the coils were separated to sharpen the bandwidth and reject the interference. Adjustable antenna matching is provided by attaching the antenna to a tap on L1 which can be selected by switch S1. This maximizes the power transferred from the antenna to the receiver by matching the low impedance of the antenna-ground circuit (around 10-200 ohms) to the higher impedance of the tuned circuits, using L1 - L2 as an impedance matching transformer. The turns ratio was adjusted with switch S1 until the station sounded loudest in the earphone E1. To improve power transfer the crystal detector D1 is also impedance matched to the tuned circuit by attaching it to a tap on L2. This also improves the Q of the tuned circuit, increasing the selectivity, because it reduces the resistive "loading" of the diode-earphone circuit on the tuned circuit. |
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current | 04:15, 9 May 2017 | 722 × 435 (36 KB) | Chetvorno (talk | contribs) | Replaced invalid version with "plain SVG" version that passes validation | |
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10:35, 20 May 2010 | 748 × 426 (48 KB) | Chetvorno (talk | contribs) | {{Information |Description={{en|A circuit of an inductively coupled Wikipedia:crystal radio receiver with Wikipedia:impedance matching. This type of circuit, called a "two circuit" or "loose coupler" receiver, was used in the most sophisticated |
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