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Actually, the thing you call a detector IS a mixer. You can probably
find some references for "H-mode mixer." It's good, to be sure, but it's inaccurate to say that it's _perfectly_ linear. (I'd LOVE to find a practical sampler which had zero distortion...though then I'd need amplifiers with zero distortion, too...) As someone else pointed out, any practical antenna you have for LF is very unlikely to be a good match to 50 ohms, and is very likely to be quite reactive so that by the time you add components to tune it, the bandwidth will be pretty narrow. So if you have a tuned LF antenna, which is quite usual, the response will be quite narrow, and why would you care about a bandpass filter? I'd recommend a loop with a tuning arrangement at its feedpoint (variable capacitance), and an appropriate preamp to drive a feedline back to the receiver. With that, you won't need any filter, just a transformer going into the mixer (converter-detector-whatever). A while back, I did some work to modify a design you can find at http://www.cpinternet.com/~lyle/bal-pre/bal-pre.htm, so that the control was done as a DC current , which also fed the power to the preamp on the same line that signals come back on. It worked out well. But check out other antenna options from Lyle's website (http://www.cpinternet.com/~lyle/) or others devoted to LF, too. Cheers, Tom |
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