• The Repair Shop - home made WWII radio

    From JMB99@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 13 17:00:13 2023
    They had a single valve radio that someone from Jersey had made whilst a prisoner.

    At the start of The Repair Shop programme today then the working radio
    about 30 minutes into the programme.

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  • From J. P. Gilliver@21:1/5 to Brian Gaff on Thu Nov 30 13:21:29 2023
    In message <uk9rbq$1bajm$1@dont-email.me> at Thu, 30 Nov 2023 11:23:35,
    Brian Gaff <brian1gaff@gmail.com> writes
    Does anyone remember the 1 valve HAC (hear all continents) radio kit? They >used to advertise in all the electronic magazines. It wa very simple ingle >coil TRF receiver with reaction control. It worked but was rather crude.
    Brian

    Almost certainly a super-regen set. I remember one such with one FET,
    that used plug-in coils; the one I built I got through three or four
    FETs before I managed to build it without damaging the FET - it was in
    the early days of FETs, when they died as soon as you touched them.
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

    Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change
    [via Penny Mayes (mayes@pmail.net)]

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