Martyn McKinney

Martyn McKinney

Martyn McKinney

Martyn McKinney is an Electrical Engineer, now retired, who has worked for IBM, Collins Radio and Motorola. For 17 years before his retirement he taught Electronic Theory, Communications and Assembly Language programming at a Community College in Toronto, Canada.

Areas of interest of the author: Radio

Publications on RadioLocman by the author Martyn McKinney:

  1. Create radio receiver circuits with the LM386 audio amplifier
    Although the ubiquitous LM386 IC was designed to be used as an audio amplifier, it has a number of undocumented characteristics that can be exploited to create simple radio receiver circuits that deliver surprisingly high performance. These circuits can be used for receiving AM,...
    Jun 18, 2020