[Milsurplus] RAL, Hopper, SW-3

[Hue Miller]

If you watch Epay a while, you'll see that quite a few Ocean Hoppers 
survived.
There are certainly more of them around than RAK / RAL or SW-3's.

I don't think the RAK / RAL is the last word in regens.
The last word is still being written, by regen receiver fans. Better 
performance
than was possible in the past.
I recall seeing in "Nuts & Volts" magazine about a decade ago, a transistor
design that put all the RF gain stages after the regen selectivity stage, 
which
was also buffered from the antenna. Doesn't that make sense: putting the
gain AFTER the selectivity? What else is not new?

Meanwhile, back in WW2, the "last word" in regens was maybe that huge
German thing, I forget the nomenclature, and don't want to look it up.
I recall a review in Radio Bygones magazine (U.K.).  That receiver weighs
about 140 lbs., reason why I never wanted one.  It's above my pain threshold

Any of the toy regens that use the 12AT7-50C5-35W4 toaster oven tubes
in the AC/DC circuit  ould qualify as the example of a miserable receiver,
IMO. However even these crummy receivers can haul in DX with selectivity
remarkable for their tiny circuit.  -Hue Miller