Interesting idea, as in boiling off fewer electrons to pile up around the cathode? not clear to me what effect that would have one way or another. ===============================
Found here..... <http://home.netcom.com/~wa2ise/radios/compaa3.html> "AM DEMODULATOR I'm using one of the diodes of the 8B10 as a detector. I found that audio fidelity of detected weak radio stations can be improved by using reduced heater voltage. This lowers "contact potential" on the diode, which comes from stray electrons floating around the hot cathode. Less of this means that a weak signal doesn't have to overcome as much of this potential to be detected linearily. I used a 100 ohm 1 watt resistor across the heater to drop the heater voltage from 8.5V to about 7.7V. This resistor divertes some of the series string current from the tube heater, thus lowering the voltage and thus the heat on the diode cathodes (and also the triode cathodes too, but the circuits they are in didn't suffer). This is just like the reduced heater voltage on detector diodes like the 6H6, 6AL5 or 5896 to improve detector performance on weak signals. Less "contact potential" for the signal to overcome. This should increase the fidelity of AM detection. The 5896 below is a dual diode version" K7DFW ..._._ ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
