[NJARC] Star Roamer (was Reflexed Superhet?)

[Al Klase]

NICHOLAS SENKER wrote:

My Knight 'Star Roamer' uses a diode detector.  Does that qualify as a producion radio?
Nick Senker


Hi Nick,

I'm not sure in what context you ask this question. For the purposes of the DX contest, let's consider it category D.  I checked both the 1969 Allied Catalog and the Star Roamer manual http://bama.edebris.com/manuals/knight/str-rmr/
Neither makes any claims that this is a "communications receiver."  I feel this is fair for this and other similar simple radios like Hallicrafters S-38, S-120, etc.  I don't think anyone with an RCA 15K or such is going to feel threatened.

RECEIVER CATEGORIES:
A - Crystal radios
B - Primitive tube receivers (homebrew also) -1 to 2 tubes plus power supply
C - 1920's Battery sets (homebrew also) -batteries or modern power supply is OK
D – Other tube radios sold for home entertainment.
E – Amateur, commercial, and military tube-type communications receivers.
F – Transistor radios introduced before 1970.

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Al Klase – N3FRQ
Flemington, NJ
http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/