Originally posted by mustefa ubram
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This circuit is not designed to receive only one frequency with no noise.
It is designed only for a toy to demonstrate the directional properties of the ferrite receiver.
It is a very simple circuit which is not even worth the trouble to add a filter circuit.
Filters are used for more sophisticated circuits.
If you want to add a filter, you must first know what frequencies you want the filter to remove, and what exact frequencies you want the filter to allow to pass through so you can receive them.
Since this is a multiband receiver, you cannot use a single filter.
you must build at least 5 separate filters, one for each band.
Then these filters must switch to a different filter when you change the position of SW2.
But that is only for a simple filter at the preamp where you believe it is needed.
You are wrong.
You need more filtering than a simple filter at the preamp if you want to remove the noise from this circuit and receive a clear signal.
You must add different filters at different stages to remove the noise signals you do not want.
Also the amplifiers must be low-noise before you can hope to get a clear signal. These are simple signal transistors - not special low noise amplifiers!
For proper filtering, each filter must be designed to remove a specific kind of noise at the different amplifier stages.
Each of these filters is made with specially calculated component values to remove the frequency range which you want to remove.
Also you must consider the antennas which you are using.
With the design I see, the noise picked up from the magnetic antenna is several times more noise than an electric field antenna, simply because it is several times more sensitive than the electric field antenna at VLF frequencies.
The filtering must be designed with this in mind.
If you want the filter to allow only a narrow band to pass through when you tune to various different frequencies, then the filters become very expensive. And they cost more than all of the parts you see in this receiver. For this reason, you are better to begin with a good VLF receiver that was intended to receive a clear VLF signal instead of a toy circuit that was designed to experiment and learn about the directional properties of a ferrite antenna.
If you think that you can make this toy receiver reject all noise and receive only the frequency which you want, by simply inserting a filter at the preamp, then you make a mistake.
The idea to add a preamp filter and believe it will remove all the noise is a mistake.
And it is a stupid way to waste time with electronic designing that is guaranteed to produce bad results.
But if you really believe that inserting a preamp filter will make the noise stop in this simple receiver, then see the image below that you can put in the place where you think a filter is needed.
Since you don't know any specific frequencies you want to remove, this is a simple low pass filter.
I think it will not remove all noises and give a clear signal, but you can try it.
A Question:
Can reveal whether the recipient New metal in the soil?
Answer: Geologists can find metal in the ground with a VLF receiver.
They usually tune to a distant VLF transmitter maybe 1000 km distance or more.
Sometimes they tune to a transmitter which they bring to the place where they want to search if there is no government transmitter sending a signal.
Then they can locate a metal tank in the ground, or a car that is buried in the ground.
They cannot locate a gold coin in the ground with their VLF receiver.
Best Wishes,
J_P


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