[SMCARA] What I built for Christmas

[Tom]

Nice job, Jason!

Some of us "grey beards" started out on Regens.  Mine was a project 
shown in an ARRL pub called "How to Become a Radio Amateur" around 1951 
or so.  It used an
octal based tube called the 6SN7, a dual triode.  I learned all about 
how to finesse the regen control and something known as "hand effect".

After you have fun on the AM broadcast band, try making a new coil 
resonant on 80 or 40 meters and play  on the CW portion.  AM is no 
challenge, but you
need a steady hand for CW! SSB? Good luck!  I think even Major Armstrong 
would have trouble tuning SSB!

I'll bet Sam has some stories too!

73 Tom ex WN2??? something or other.  Long time ago and lost to 
posterity! The WN, KN prefix was a novice call  and only good for one 
year, non renewable!
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On 12/29/2015 8:57 PM, Jason Rearick wrote:
> Well for Christmas Santa was good to me and I got a Armstrong Single Tube Regen Radio (AM band).  It was a very nice build and I enjoyed it very much.
> If you are interested in what it looks like and sounds like, you can check out my short video on youtube.    https://youtu.be/aXlJPOTSRPc
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>
> N3YUG
> Jason
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