Help, FM Transmiter

beenthere

Joined Apr 20, 2004
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Well, the FM band runs from 88 - 108 MHz. The usual procedure would be to tune a receiver to an empty part of the band and adjust L1 (while giving an audio input to one or both inputs) until you hear the transmitted signal.

Using a non-metallic tool to adjust L1 will work much better. A metal tool will affect the tuning unpredictably.

A BA1404 data sheet would give you some useful information.
 

Audioguru

Joined Dec 20, 2007
11,248
The lousy old BA1404 IC had poor performance so it was discontinued and replaced by a family of much better FM stereo transmitter ICs that use a crystal controlled frequency synthesizer with a phase-locked-loop.
An Australian magazine Silicon Chip published The Micromitter project with one of the new ICs. Most inexpensive modern MP3 player to car radio FM stereo transmitters use one of the new ICs.

The Indian site electronics-diy has two schematics using one of the new ICs:
http://electronics-diy.com/schematics/BH1417_fm_transmitter.htm
http://electronics-diy.com/BH1417_PLL_Stereo_FM_Transmitter.php
 
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