Polaroid IC-V8000 service manual Circuit Description, Receiver Circuits

SECTION 4 CIRCUIT DESCRIPTION

4-1 RECEIVER CIRCUITS

4-1-1 ANTENNA SWITCHING CIRCUIT (MAIN UNIT)

Received signals passed through the low-pass filter (L44, L47, L48, L51, C190, C197, C203, C208, C210, C217, C218). The filtered signals are applied to the 1/4 λ type antenna switching circuit (D16, D19).

The antenna swtiching circuit functions as a low-pass filter while transmitting. However, its impedance becomes very high while D16 and D19 are turn ON. Thus transmit signals are blocked from entering the receiver circuits. The antenna switching circuit employs a 1/4 λ type diode swtiching sys- tem. The passed signals are then applied to the RF amplifi- er circuit.

4-1-2 RF CIRCUIT (MAIN UNIT)

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 applied to the limitter (D15), and are then passed through the band- pass filter (D13, L43, C183, C182). The filtered signals are amplified at the RF amplifier (Q27), then applied to the 1st mixer circuit after out-of-band signals are suppressed at the bandpass filter (D9–D11).

D9–D11, D13 employ varactor diodes that track the band- pass filters and are controlled by the T1–T3 signals from the D/A convertor (IC5, pins 10, 11, 23). These diodes tune the center frequency of an RF passband for wide bandwidth receiving and good image response rejection.

The signals from the RF circuit are mixed at the 1st mixer (Q19) with a 1st LO signal coming from the VCO circuit to produce a 21.70 MHz 1st IF signal.

The 1st IF signal is applied to two crystal filters (FI3 and FI4) to suppress out-of-band signals. The filtered 1st IF signal is applied to the IF amplifier (Q16), then applied to the 2nd mixer circuit (IC4, pin 16).

4-1-4 2ND IF AND DEMODULATOR CIRCUITS (MAIN UNIT)

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

The 1st IF signal from the IF amplifier is applied to the 2nd mixer section of the FM IF IC (IC4, pin 16), and is mixed with the 2nd LO signal to be converted to 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 21.25 MHz 2nd LO signal is produced at the PLL circuit.

The 2nd IF signal from the 2nd mixer (IC4, pin 3) passes through a ceramic filter (FI1; When wide is selected, F2; When Narrow is selected. (Narrow is [USA] version only.)) to remove unwanted heterodyned frequencies. It is then ampli- fied at the limiter amplifier (IC4, pin 5) and applied to the quadrature detector (IC4, pins 10, 11) to demodulate the 2nd IF signal into AF signals.

4-1-5 AF CIRCUIT (MAIN AND LOGIC UNITS)

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

The AF amplifier circuit amplifies the demodulated AF sig-

nals to drive a speaker.

(MAIN UNIT)

The 1st mixer circuit converts the received signal to a fixed

AF signals from the FM IF IC (IC2, pin 9) are applied to the

frequency of the 1st IF signal with a PLL output frequency.

analog swtich (LOGIC UNIT; IC6, pin 1) via the high pass fil-

By changing the PLL frequency, only the desired frequency

ter (IC3c, pins 9, 8). The output signals from pin 11 are

will pass through two crystal filters at the next stage of the

applied to the volume adjustment pot (LOGIC UNIT; R31).

1st mixer.

The signals are applied to the AF power amplifier (IC9, pin

• 2ND IF AND DEMODULATOR CIRCUITS

1) after passing through the AFmute swtich (Q29).

2nd IF filter

PLL IC

450 kHz

C84

C85

IC1

R55

FI2

LPF

16

1

R59

R64

8

7

5

3

2

Noise

Noise

Active

detector

comp.

Mixer

filter

Limiter

X1

21.25 MHz

amp.

"SQLIN" signal from the		FM
D/A convertor (IC5, pin 214
		detector				RSSI
									IC4 TA31136F
		9	10	C116 11			12	13	16 1st IF from the IF amplifier (Q16)
AF signal "DETO"	R71			R73				"NOIS" signal to the CPU pin 19
	C105	C101				R5V	"SD" signal to the CPU pin 97
					R63
			X2

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