[ARC5] Novice receivers.

[Dennis DuValll]

My 1951 novice receiver was a two tube (6C6/37) regen.  Plug-in coils wound on old bakelite tube bases.  Made maybe a couple contacts with it.
Did much better with a 6K8 converter followed by a 6SN7 regen and audio circuit, also out of a period ARRL handbook.  Also tried an NC-33 
(National's answer to the S-38) my dad had purchased earlier — useless.  Tried another “serious” regen out of an ARRL handbook about the same 
time.  Receiver and PS in the same box, “modern" octal base tubes, new parts ordered up for Allied radio, etc. My dad even built a nice wooden 
cabinet for it but I could never get the damn thing to work.  And, no one in a small Montana town to go to for help. Several years later when I was 
about to graduate from college with a BSEE and  by then an old hand at reading color codes I came across the remains of the project and in about 
30 sec. spotted a 150K resistor in the regeneration control circuit that should have been something around 15K….  :^(

Dennis D. W7QHO
Glendale, CA 

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On Nov 16, 2015, at 11:12 AM, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote (in part):
> 
>   My first receiver was an S-38B, I may still have it but can't find it. …..

> 
> On 11/16/2015 10:26 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
>> On 16 Nov 2015 at 10:16, D C _Mac_ Macdonald wrote:
>> 
>>> My first receiver (and transmitter) was the Walter Ashe $49.50 Novice
>>> Station with 6SN7GT regen receiver.  Worked a lot better than the S-38 I
>>> borrowed when the 6SN7GT went dead and I couldn't afford a replacement
>>> tube.
>> My first "good" receiver was a Hallicrafters S-41G 

ETC.