BUR FDBUS &&> MCMXO'Q MIR PUBLISHERS B. 0. Bapmn, B. K. )KdaHoe PA£HOnPHEMHbIE yCTPOfiCTBA H3,aATEJIbCTBO «COBETCKOE PA£HO» MOCKBA RADIO RECEIVERS V. BARKAN, V. ZHDANOV Translated from the Russian by V. Valessyuk and B. Kuznetsov MIR PUBLISHERS • MOSCOW 1970 UDC = 621.396.62(075.3) 20 First published 1963 Second edition 1970 This book has been recommended for republication by Indian specialists under the programme of the Joint Indo- Soviet Board to make the best Soviet textbooks available for Indian students. Ha amAuiicKOM muiie CONTENTS CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1. Uses for and Classes of Radio Receivers . 9 2. Receiver Characteristics 11 3. Functional Units of a TRF Receiver 15 4. Functional Units of a Superheterodyne Receiver 17 5. Receiver Circuit Analysis . 18 CHAPTER II ..... AUDIO-FREQUENCY VOLTAGE AMPLIFIERS 6. General 24 7. Principles of Amplifier Design 36 8. Resistance-capacitance-coupled Amplifier 39 9. Design of an i?C-coupled Amplifier . 49 10. Transformer-coupled Amplifiers. 53 CHAPTER III ....••• AUDIO-FREQUENCY POWER AMPLIFIERS 11. General .... 61 12. Analysis of a Single-ended Triode Power Amplifier 64 13. Frequency Response of the Final Stage 69 14. Design of a Triode Power Ampl.ifier.... 72 15. Single-ended Pentode Power Amplifier . 76 16. Design of Class A Pentode and Beam Tetrode Power Amplifiers 81 17. Push-pull Power Amplifier 89 18. Negative Feedback in Audio-frequency Amplifiers 96 19. Phase-inversion Circuits. . • 102 CHAPTER IV AUDIO-FREQUENCY TRANSISTOR AMPLIFIERS 20. Brief Outline of Transistors 106 21. Analysis of Transistor Amplifiers 108 22. Transistor Arrangements 113 23. Multi-stage Transistor Amplifiers 119 24. Transistor Power Amplifiers 130 CONTENTS CHAPTER V ...... AERIAL-INPUT CIRCUITS 25. General 143 26. Capacitively-coupled Aerial-input Circuit 145 27. Inductively-couple.d Aer.ial-i.nput .Circui.t 149 28. Aerial-input Circuit for a Ferrite-rod Aerial 153 29. Calculation of Aerial-input Circuits for Long, Medium and Short Waves 155 CHAPTER VI ..... RADIO-FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS 30. General 160 31. Tuned Amplifiers 161 32. Band-pass Amplifiers 174 33. Input Impedance of the Amplifier Valve 179 34. Stability of Radio-frequency Amplifiers 182 35. Transistor Radio-frequency Amplifiers 188 36. Calculation of Radio-frequency Amplifiers 197 CHAPTER VII .... DETECTION 37. General 207 38. Linear Detection . 212 39. Diode Detectors 220 . 40. Calculation of a Diode Detector 225 41. Anode-bend Detection . 228 42. Infinite-impedance Detection . 230 43. Grid-leak Detection 231 CHAPTER VIII REGENERATIVE AND SUPERREGENERATIVE RECEPTION 44. General . . . 236 45. Theory of Regenerative Reception 238 46. Feedback Control Circuits 240 47. Theory of Superregenerative Reception 242 CHAPTER IX ..... SUPERHETERODYNE RECEPTION 48. General 250 49. Mixer and Frequency-changer Circuits 258 • 50. Transistor Mixers and Frequency Changers 263 CONTENTS 51. Particulars of Superheterodyne Reception . 265 52. Ganged Tuning of Superheterodyne Receivers 271 53. Calculation of a Frequency Changer . 277 CHAPTER X ...... RADIO INTERFERENCE AND ITS SUPPRESSION ..... ..... 54. General 283 55. Atmospherics ... 284 56. Man-made Noise 286 57. Receiver(Internal) Noise. 287 CHAPTER XI ...... RECEPTION OF FREQUENCY-MODULATED SIGNALS ...... 58. General 294 59. The Limiter 299 60. The Frequency Detector (Discriminator) . 301 CHAPTER XII ...... RECEIVER CONTROLS .... 61. General .... . 307 62. Manual Gain Control . 309 63. Automatic Gain Control . 313 64. Bandwidth Control . 319 65. Automatic Frequency Control . . 321 CHAPTER XIII CALCULATION OF SUPERHETERODYNE RECEIVERS ....... OPERATING ON LONG, MEDIUM AND SHORT WAVES .... ..... 66. General 328 67. Preliminary Calculations 330 68. Final Calculations 337 CHAPTER XIV RADAR RECEIVE.RS ... 69. General 341 70. PCuWlsed-radar Receivers . 344 71. Radar Receivers 350 72. Coherent-pulse Radar Receivers 352 ...... CONTENTS .... 73. Microwave Valves 74. Input Resistance oi Valves at .Micro.wave.Freq.uencie.s . 7756.. TAeurnieald-iCnipructuitCsirocfuiRtasdainr.tRheecei.VveHrFs.a.nd .U.HF..Ban.d.s . 77. Microwave Valve Amplifiers ..... 78. Travelling-wave Valve Amplifier 79. Parametric Amplifiers 80 Indu'ced Emission Amplifiers 81. Mixers and Frequency Changers for t.he V.HF a.nd U.HF Bands 8832.. SBianlgalnec-eedndMeidxerFsrefqourentchye SCHhaFngBearsndfo.r the.SH.F Ba.nd . 8845.. II..FF.. AAmmpplliiffiieerrss ffoorr SVHHFF.Raencde.ivUerHs.F Re.ceiver.s . . 86. The Noise Factor.of I.F.. Amp.lifier.s in .SHF .Receiv.ers . 87. Design of a Double-tuned Coupling Network for I.F. Amplifiers of SHF Receivers Video Detectors Calculation of a Single^ended Video Detector . Automatic Control in Radar Receivers . CHAPTER XV ..... VIDEO AMPLIFIERS 91. General 92. Video Amplifier Circuit Configurations 93. Transmission-line Amplifier 94. Video Amplifier Design . 95. The Final Stage of a Video Amplifier 96. Calculation of the Final Stage for a Video Amplifier CHAPTER XVI FUNDAMENTALS OF PRACTICAL DESIGN OF PULSED-RAD.AR .RECE.IVE.RS IN THE SHF BAND 97. General 98. Prel.imina.ry C.alcul.ations. 99. Final Calculations 100 Practical SHF Radar Receivers Index