[NJARC] Annual Fall Repair Clinic this Saturday

[David Sica]

I had a great time at the Repair Clinic last Saturday.  Despite the thirty
or forty years I've been monkeying around with antique radios, I had never
dug into a twenties-vintage battery set.

Marv Beeferman, who has probably forgotten more about that area of
collecting than I will ever know, kindly spent the entire day with me and
we quickly got a homebrew 1-tube regen set going. That set is now my first
and only "really early" working radio.  We then spent the rest of the day
on a 5-tube Sonora TRF.  The exact schematic for that set isn't available,
so we spent a lot of time figuring out the circuit and attempting to
identify the power connections.

This resulted in some "spirited conversations" about how the set might have
been designed. Other experts weighed in too, notably Al Klase.  I am
entirely self-taught in radio theory, and as they say "a self-taught man
has a fool for a teacher." So it's nice when a real engineer can either
validate or shoot down your theory.  We didn't get it going by the end of
the day, but I learned a few things and as always, it's a lot more fun
doing detective work on this stuff with knowledgeable friends than in the
solitude of your own workshop.

-- Dave Sica

Dave Sica
New Jersey Antique Radio Club

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 9:19 PM, RICHARD LEE <radiorich at prodigy.net> wrote:

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> Greetings Fellow Enthusiasts,  Just a reminder that our repair clinic is
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