6.190 Introductory to RF Design Laboratory (U)

L MWF2, Room 34-101
Ron Roscoe, rroscoe@mit.edu, 3-4635
Prereq.: 6.002 or 6.071
2-9-1

This subject qualifies as a Department Lab subject -- does not qualify as an Institute Lab.

Learn RF design through the study of antique radio receiver circuits; restore (and keep!) an antique radio.

Series and parallel tuned circuits and associated bandwidth

High Frequency RF Amps; how to design around the Miller effect

Regenerative receiver and detector circuits

Tuned RF [TRF] receivers

Neutralized [Neutrodyne] RF Amps

Superheterodyne receivers; oscillators, mixers and IF amps

The "All American Five" AM receiver

FM receivers and detectors

JFET substitutes for scarce 1920's vacuum tubes

RF measurements

Common vacuum tube triode and pentode topologies

Three lectures per week for 8 weeks then 5 weeks will be devoted to the restoration and circuit analysis of an antique radio [supplied]. 12 EDPs.