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This Selector Antennas using PIN Diodes Circuit Diagram selector antennas uses PIN diodes, was designed using common components and is very useful when used various external antennas, this antenna selector uses PIN diodes that eliminate disadvantages of mechanical switches especially at high frequency.  Capacitors C1 to C4 and C9 are used to prevent the input and output circuit DC. Shock L1 to L5 prevent leakage of HF signal.Shock L1 to L5 can be wound on a ferrite core, using enameled copper wire of 0.3 mm in diameter, two rounds will suffice for entries for VHF and UHF 5 (1 mH is required for VHF and UHF about 5 uH). The circuit was designed for antenna input impedance of 50 or 75 ohms. Selector Antennas using PIN Diodes Circuit Diagram

This circuit was designed for use in a hifi showroom, where a choice of speakers could be connected to a stereo amplifier for comparative purposes. It could be used for other similar applications where just one of an array of devices needs to be selected at any one time. A bank of mechanically interlocked DPDT pushbutton switches is the simplest way to perform this kind of selection but these switches aren’t readily available nowadays and are quite expensive. This simple circuit performs exactly the same job. It can be configured with any number of outputs between two and nine, simply by adding pushbutton switches and relay driver circuits to the currently unused outputs of IC2 (O5-O9). Gate IC1a is connected as a relax-ation oscillator which runs at about 20kHz. Pulses from the oscillator are fed to IC1b, where they are gated with a control signal from IC1c. The result is inverted by IC1d and fed into the clock input (CP0) of IC2. Initially, we assume that the reset switch (S1) has be...