On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:38:36 -0800, Frank Gilliland
wrote:

On 2 Jan 2005 21:13:01 GMT, (Michael Black)
wrote in :


Jim Flanagan ) writes:
Hello...
Back in 1973, when I was in the process of getting my Novice license, I
built a simple tube receiver from a construction article that came from
a Boy Scout Merit Badge pamphlet on 'Radio'. The radio didn't work well
because I was young (16) and really didn't know what I was doing.
Recently, I have had a desire to rebuild that radio for sentimental
reasons and am trying to find that schematic. The problem is, I cannot
remember the name of the article. My belief is that the article was
originally published in QST around 1965 and was granted reprint
permission in the 'Radio' Boy Scout merit badge booklet.
Does anyone have any recollection of which reciever that I am referring
to. What I remember was that there were 5 tubes (I think) and used plug
in coils for changing bands. It also was a supre-regen type receiver.
If anyone could help me with optaining the schematic for this, It would
be most appreciated.

Thanks and a very happy new year...
Jim
WB5KYE

People ask questions like this all the time, but they forget that most
construction articles, especially of simple equipment, were pretty generic.
The only difference between that regen over there and this regen over here
would be because someone used what they had on hand, and it was time to run
another regen article. So the coil forms might be a different size or
form, causing the winding information to be different, and they'd use a
different triode (because that's what they had), and the layout would be
different because they had a cake tin instead of a piece of wood to build
it on, but the basic circuit would be the same.


It uses one each of standard 4-pin and 5-pin plug-in coil forms, which
are a little hard to find these days. Everything else can be found in
most any tube-junkie's pile of parts.

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Ocean State Electronics has 4 and 6 pin phenolic forms. I am in no
way affiliated with them except as an occasional customer.
http://www.oselectronics.com/ose_p86.htm