[Boatanchors] Speaking of re-gens

[Jim Wiley]

August 1960  Popular Electronics magazine.  An improved version using a 
12AT7 can be found here: 

http://cool386.tripod.com/6c4/6c4.htm


I built  one of these (the original version), and it worked surprisingly 
well.  Trying the "new and improved" version is on my "to-do" list, 


- Jim, KL7CC


Phil wrote:
> Been following the SW3 threads.
>
> Way back when, perhaps around 1960 (I was in my teens), give or take, I 
> built an "FM broadcast tuner" that used a super-regen detector.  I seem 
> to recall that the circuit came from a magazine of the day (Popular 
> Electronics?) and was basically a 1 tube circuit.  I think it may have 
> used a 6C4 tube, but I don't remember for sure.  Actually, 'my'  version 
> used the 1 tube super-regen circuit from the article, followed by a two 
> stage audio amplifier to drive a speaker directly.   While I had built 
> MANY HF and BCB receivers prior to this, this was my first venture into 
> the world of VHF, and it performed surprisingly well.  We lived in Grass 
> Valley then, and I had no problem listening to the FM Broadcast stations 
> out of Sacramento. . .
>
> Anyone recall the circuit and/or the magazine article this may have come 
> from?
>
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