DREAM DRM SOFTWARE AM DEMODULATION Homemade Down Converter for radio receiver on PC
Today I re-started the experiments with SW Dream. After my small laboratory was destroyed by a flooding river.... no frequency counter, no oscilloscope and no signal generator ... I have to buy new ... so I can not make precise measurements.... I built a simple down converter with integrated circuit NE602 and the ceramic resonator filter at 465 kHz ... see this link: http://users.belgacom.net/hamradio/schemas/DRM_455kHz_to_LF_Converter_FRG-100.htm. The first test I did it by connecting an old receiver OC, home made, of NUOVA ELETTRONICA (LX1532....) This is a double conversion Super Eterodine radio. http://www.nuovaelettronica.it/ I connect to the output of the second intermediate frequency of 455 kHz. The PC is very old, Pentium 3, 1000, with 512 MB of RAM and may be too slow ... but I think the initial results are positive. CPU run at 78%... The received station today is: Studio DX, 15 May 2011, approximately at 11.18 Italian time. On air in AWR EUROPE, SHORTWAVE BAND, RADIO VOCE DELLA SPERANZA - Sunday - 09:02 UTC 9790 kHz Frequency Verified with other radio digital frequency and on the Internet http://www.studiodx.net/