Hi Alan, Please consider MFJ's 8100K regenerative receiver kit. It provides reasonable shortwave performance, and its regeneration control can be adjusted for ssb and cw reception. The radio's open layout makes it a good kit for beginners, and the $80 price includes a nice case. The kit assembly even requires the winding of one toroid.
I used to teach an "Introduction to Radio" course for liberal arts students, most of whom had never before seen a soldering iron. They had a ball building these radios, and the few radios that did not work when first turned on were easy to troubleshoot. 73, John, no8v ---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:45:05 -0700 >From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net (on behalf of Alan Price <w1...@arrl.net>) >Subject: [Elecraft] Need a kit recomendation (off topic a little) >To: Elecraft <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> > > >I purchased an AM radio kit for my five year old grandson. It was a piece of #...@#$%! Did not even work when I completed it. Does anyone know of a simple radio kit (like the old Heath crystal radio kit) that is of decent quality? He was so disappointed, I was also. He loves to listen while make HF contacts using my K3. > >73 >Alan >W1HYV >_________________________________________________________________ >Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Search, add, and share the web’s latest sports videos. Check it out. >http://www.windowslive.com/Online/Hotmail/Campaign/QuickAdd? ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_QA_HM_sports_videos_072009&cat=sports >______________________________________________________________ >Elecraft mailing list >Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > >This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
