My request is: can someone recommend a schematic to make this high frequency amplifier for this design. I had found a lot of schmatics on google,
but i don't know what to choose.
Think about your circuit and try to form a criterion about the basic characteristic you need in your amplifier, starting with must haves (see below) without forgetting compromises (ease of construction, cost, availability, and your own strong and weak points). Most of the different circuits you saw could work for you.
At the input of the amplifier you should have a selective resonator, probably an inductor in parallel with a variable capacitor. You don't want to load the resonator, for it will lose selectivity: the amplifier must have a high input impedance. Since AM broadcast has a carrier frequency from 700kHz to 1.8MHZ (with country variations), your amplifier must have a bandwidth from 500kHz to 2MHz or so. You should also consider what voltage and power gain you are looking for: if an AM station is close enough, you might need none. At this stage, gain is not so important, just what your demodulator needs. Once you got the audio, you can easily amplify it.
I'd aim for an amplifier with high input impedance, 2MHz bandwidth, and at least unity gain. So review the circuits you got based on that. For example,
- Using an op-amp amplifier is ok if the IC has got the bandwidth (no 358 or 741, but TL072 does fine) and if you don't abuse the gain. Very high input impedance, fair bandwidth, fair power gain, low voltage gain.
- Using an emitter follower, if you bias it right, gives you high input impedance, lots of bandwidth, good power gain but no voltage gain. Coupling the input via a small capacitor will reject low frequency interference. This is a very good simple option for close stations. A jfet
common source
follower amplifier is very easy to bias and has lots of input impedance, but a bit less power gain.
- A common emitter amplifier is a compromise: medium input impedance, ok bandwidth, but you get voltage and power gain. You can't abuse the voltage gain, watch for the input capacitance. Probably best is an emitter follower and then a common emitter.
It is a good idea to know what kind of signals you will be amplifying. Probe the resonator with the oscilloscope, at the lowest voltage level; you should easily see the AM signal bursting there, in the tens of millivolts range.