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Video/Audio Wireless TransmitterAbstract
Abstract:
To design and build a wireless transmitter that works over the FM frequency and
allows the transfer of a video/audio signal over a certain distance to an FM tuner.
Introduction:
In this fast-paced world, there is little time for inconveniences and a greater
need for portability and adaptability. The idea for an Audio/Video transmitter stems
from this need. There may have been times when you've wanted to hook up your VCR
from one room to another television set in another room. But that would have entailed
that you first unhook all kinds of wires and plugs from the primary TV set; carry
the VCR to the next TV set; and then finally re-wire everything together. An Audio/Video
transmitter will let you do just about the same thing. But it would offer other
conveniences as well. For example, it would allow you to set up security cameras
around your home which would send video signals directly to a TV or VCR. And, there
are no cumbersome wires and cables to line throughout the intended area. Design
& Development (What we did):
The most difficult part of this project was coming up with a design that would work.
Because both of us had very little experience with RF signal systems we had to learn,
basically, from scratch. The approach we took, was to first create a video transmitter,
then add the audio portion later. This way we could test each component individually
and then integrate them later when we knew both parts were working correctly. We
first went to the Grainger Library to research various transmitters designs and
how they were built. Although all the books were very old, we were able to gather
some useful information from various sources. Most of the books had only information
about sending audio transmission and had very little on video signal transmissions.
Also, some books that had some kind of designs and data for video tranmission were
very outdated. But we found some interesting standards that help explained what
television stations used. This was not too far from what our original intentions
were on building two different types of transmitters. Let us first look at the basic
block diagram of what and how Audio/Video transmission works. From the book: Television
Electronics by Kiver and Kaufman (8th ed.) Copyright 1983; there is a block diagram
of the television transmitter (page 9, Kiver and Kaufman).
As you can see, television signals operates as two separate transmissions. One for
the video and the other for sound. And just like our project, two different devices
are going to be built. As noted before, most of the books we used from Grainger
Library were older than us, so all parts used listed (tubes and such) were outdated
and not readily available to us. So the search goes on to finding another solution.
Let us look at some of the industry standards that might help shed some light on
this project. From the book: Radio Frequency Transmission Systems by Whitaker (1st
ed.) Copyright 1991; we see some of the standards set by the U.S. Federal Communications
Commission (page 44, Whitaker).
| Band |
Channels |
Frequency |
| Low-band VHF |
2 through 6 |
(54-72 Mhz and 76-88 Mhz) |
| High-band VHF |
7 through 13 |
(174-216 Mhz) |
| UHF |
14 through 69 |
(470-806 Mhz) |
| UHF |
70-83 |
(806-890 Mhz) currently assigned to land mobile radio
services |
Below is a table that show the specific frequency band assignment to the
channels designations (page 45, Whitaker).
From the table above, we see that all channels assignments are 6 Mhz apart. And
from Kiver and Kaufman (page 20-21) there is a listing of all of the corresponding
television channels to their frequencies with much greater detail showing the picture
carrier and the sound carrier assignments. Although based on cable standards, it
is identical to the airwave standards set by the FCC. Within the 6 Mhz range the
picture and sound carrier are within 2 Mhz from the ends and also about 2 Mhz apart
from each other. This leaves about 4 Mhz in between each channels.
Implementation (How we did it):
After searching high and low we have come across a diagram of some audio transmission
schematic which was claimed to also be capable of transmitting video signals. The
device was later found out to be known as the repeater. In the following pages we
have printed up the schematics that we used to build our devices. Two devices were
built (as noted above as to why two different transmitters are needed). We had various
difficulties with implementing the video transmitter design. We discovered that
somehow a 9v battery did not deliver enough power to the circuit produce a strong
clean signal. So a bench power supply was used to run the circuit.
We have also learned that not using an insulated crossdriver to tune our circuit
to the correct frequency gave us a lot of problems. So, for an alternative solution,
we used an old clock/radio/TV with an analog tuner to test our design. This allowed
for fine tuning with a plastic knob when searching correct frequency.
The audio transmitter eventually worked. But the audio signal was wrought with
interference and fluctuations depending on the distance between the transmitter,
the receiver and the position of the transmitter's antenna. Also, since the devices
were built in a very crude manner, it was very prone to noise interference creating
highly distorted signals.
Audio/Video
transmitter schematic
There was another design for video transmission found from the book: The Giant Book
of Electronics Projects by The Editors of 73 Magazine (1st ed. 16th printing) Copyright
1982 (page 464).
We didn't build this design since we didn't know some of the undefined values (or
at least they were not properly determined and purposely left undefined). Conclusion
(Results):
Overall we learned a great deal about RF signals relative to how much we knew before
hand. We recommend taking an RF signal class such as ECE353 before undertaking any
sort of RF project. This project can be greatly improved on for those interested
in RF transmission design which most people take for granted when listening to their
favorite band on the radio or watching football games on the TV.
Nick Shin
Henry Hwangbo
Project Report
Advanced Digital Systems Laboratory
FALL 1996
Title: Video/Audio Wireless Transmitter
Source: unknown
Published on: 2005-06-19
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