Regenerative receiver based entirely on the LM386
I got a tip the other day that there is an interesting circuit over at the RadioBoards Forum where an LM386 IC is used as a regen receiver for the medium wave band. It is the user ‘Selenium’ who has come up with that circuit. I think it is quite an amazing application of this IC – so here it is:
LM386 as a medium wave regen receiver by user Selenium on RadioBoards Forum |
Interestingly, both the + and – inputs are tied together (pins 2 and 3). It is also quite unusual to connect pin 7 to anything but capacitors (for bypass or extra input as I have done), so that may change the bias of the input stage. Further, the smaller the impedance from pin 1 to ground, the larger the gain (here 10 uF in series with 1k).
If you want to read more about the regen circuit, go to the RadioBoards Forum here.