[K3PZN-List] Regen Success !

[Curt Milton]

Well maybe I am regressing - but then maybe not!  

I pulled out the regen receiver I built last winter, hooked it up -- and this 
time with some patience I have signals.  I first tried building a radio shack 
P=box regenerative receiver as a teen - I remember hearing the same regeneration 
action - but no signals.  


Tonite I have pleasant CW, and CHU time signals.  Literally the rig is just a 
J-FET, an audio IC, a NPN transistor to provide isolation (so I don't radiate 
the regen signal on my vertical!), a few parts, a couple variable caps and a 
coil wound on a pill bottle.  One transistor provides most of the gain and 
detects the signals.  


Amazing it works!  The first electronic ham receivers were regens - built with 
only a few tubes since they were so expensive back then.  I am not ready to get 
rid of my modern receivers - but this thing is rather cool.  It could use some 
refinements - but in essence it is working.  It only took me 30-some years!  
(well not literally in effort as I only tried twice to make one).  


73 Curt