You can buy tube bases, so you dont have to break tubes. Antique electronic supply was selling them last I looked, along with coil forms, rf chokes, tubes, sockets, knobs, and so on.
PVC pipe makes nice coil forms, but to get the best Q, the old B+W coil stock can not be beat. Brett N2DTS ----- Original Message ----- From: "AirRadio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Building my first regenerative RX > > That looks really great, I have almost enough bits in my junkbox to > construct this ( might even have a Selenium rectifier! hihi) I love the > sound of breaking glass, now where's all those old dead octals gone? > Seriously though you don't have to use old tube bases but you might have to > recalculate the coil dimensions, I wonder if there is a simple transmitter > to go with it? 73 Max M0GHQ > > > > > > JT Croteau wrote: > >> I'd like to try building my first regenerative receiver but I am quite > >> new to tube rigs so I am looking for something relatively simple to > >> construct. I've been looking at the following circuit and wonder if > >> it'd be a good one to start with. > >> > >> http://www.mines.uidaho.edu/~glowbugs/12at7_regen.html > >> > >> Would I have any difficulties finding the tube, tube socket, and tube > >> bases? > >> > >> Thanks > >> > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > AMRadio mailing list > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
