Icom IC-F21 Circuit Description, Receiver Circuits, Antenna Switching Circuit, Rf Circuit

SECTION 4 CIRCUIT DESCRIPTION

4-1 RECEIVER CIRCUITS

4-1-1 ANTENNA SWITCHING CIRCUIT

The antenna switching circuit functions as a low-pass filter while receiving. However, its impedance becomes very high while D9 and D10 are turned ON. Thus transmit signals are blocked from entering the receiver circuits. The antenna switching circuit employs a λ⁄4 type diode switching system.

Received signals are passed through the low-pass filter (L1, L2, C3, C5, C6). The filtered signals are applied to the λ⁄4 type antenna switching circuit (D9, D10).

The passed signals are then applied to the RF amplifier cir- cuit.

The signals from the RF circuit are mixed at the 1st mixer (Q16) with a 1st LO signal (393.65–423.65 MHz) coming from the VCO circuit to produce a 46.35 MHz 1st IF signal.

The 1st IF signal is applied to a crystal filter (FI1) to sup- press out-of-band signals. The filtered 1st IF signal is applied to the IF amplifier (Q17), then applied to the 2nd mixer circuit (IC3, pin 16).

4-1-4 2ND IF AND DEMODULATOR CIRCUITS

The 2nd mixer circuit converts the 1st IF signal into a 2nd IF signal. A double conversion superheterodyne system (which converts receive signals twice) improves the image rejection ratio and obtains stable receiver gain.

4-1-2 RF CIRCUIT

The RF circuit amplifies signals within the range of frequen- cy coverage and filters out-of-band signals.

The signals from the antenna switching circuit are amplified at the RF amplifier (Q15) after passing through the tunable bandpass filter (D12, L21, C104, C105). The amplified sig- nals are applied to the 1st mixer circuit (Q19) after out-of- band signals are suppressed at the 3 stages tunable band- pass filter (D13, L22, C111, C113, D14, L23, C116, C117, D15, L24, C120, C122).

Varactor diodes are employed at the bandpass filters that track the filters and are controlled by the CPU (IC7) via the D/A convertor (IC9) using T1–T4 signals. These diodes tune the centre frequency of an RF passband for wide bandwidth receiving and good image response rejection.

The 1st IF signal from the IF amplifier is applied to the 2nd mixer section of the FM IF IC (IC3, pin 16), and is mixed with the 2nd LO signal to be converted into a 450 kHz 2nd IF sig- nal.

The FM IF IC contains the 2nd mixer, limiter amplifier, quad- rature detector and active filter circuits. A 2nd LO signal (45.9 MHz) is produced at the PLL circuit by tripling it’s ref- erence frequency.

The 2nd IF signal from the 2nd mixer (IC3, pin 3) passes through a ceramic filter (FI2) to remove unwanted hetero- dyned frequencies. It is then amplified at the limiter amplifi- er (IC3, pin 5) and applied to the quadrature detector (IC3, pins 10, 11) to demodulate the 2nd IF signal into AF signals.

4-1-3 1ST MIXER AND 1ST IF CIRCUITS

The 1st mixer circuit converts the received signal into a fixed frequency of the 1st IF signal with a PLL output frequency. By changing the PLL frequency, only the desired frequency will pass through a crystal filter at the next stage of the 1st mixer.

4-1-5 AF CIRCUIT

AF signals from the FM IF IC (IC3, pin 9) are applied to the analog switch (IC6, pin 1) after being passed through the high-pass filter (IC5B, pins 5, 7) via the “DET” signal. The signals pass through the low-pass filter (IC5D, pins 13, 14), and then applied to the analog switch (IC6, pins 9, 10) again. The output signals from the analog swtich (IC6, pin 11) are applied to the AF power amplifier (IC4, pin 4) after being passed through the [VOL] control (SW-A/SW-B unit; R143) via the “VOLIN” and “VOLOUT” signals.

2ND IF AND DEMODULATOR CIRCUITS				2nd IF filter
			C154	450 kHz	Q18
	C155	R98					PLL IC
				FI2	⋅3	2		1
							IC1

R99	R100	8		7		5		3	2
					Noise		Noise
		Active			detector		comp.	Mixer
		filter		Limiter					X1
									15.3 MHz
				amp.
"SQLIN" signal to the
		FM
D/A convertor (IC9, pin 23)		detector				RSSI
									IC3 TA31136F
		9	10	C140 11			12	13	16 1st IF from the IF amplifier (Q17)
AF signal "DET"	R93			R92				"NOIS" signal to the CPU pin 53
	C138	C139				R5V	"RSSI" signal to the CPU pin 59
					R94
			X2

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