10/08/2025
Hallo! Maybe you would see something complete and in use from my constructions? Here is my VHF tube amplifier, made to transmit an analog VHF TV channel into my home, for my early portable Tv sets! It works with a PCC88 and a E180F, and delivers 200mW max AM broadcast signal in the 200-207MHz channel. It needs only the heater transformers, as anode voltage is derived directly from mains (see the power supply schematic) and it's connected to earth with some "Y" 330pF capacitors, in order to maintain 50Hz insulation and proper VHF conduction. It requires only 10W and is really compact. The input signal is a 90dBuV analog VHF channel from a modulator, and the output is a ground plane antenna, directly connected to its "F" central connector. It's capable to give adequate RF signal to see analog television in all my 100mq first floor home, including balconies and the 100mq ground floor. It has also a relay activated by a 12Vdc injected from the input connector, in order to remote control the amplifier when the modulator is ON.