Someone recently left a comment on one of my older blog-posts asking if I could go into a little more detail about my construction techniques. It’s a question I’ve been asked a few times and although I have never detailed them in one post, if you were to read the posts for my main construction […]
A query I hear from time to time about using copper-plated boards for Manhattan construction is what they look like after a few months or years. “How do they age?” is the question. My first such project, the WBR, was housed in an enclosure made from double-sided PCB material, and I could see that the […]
Since finishing The Sproutie MK II and publishing the blog-post on it a few weeks ago, I have been listening to it, winding an extra coil or two, and also attempting to tweak the active audio filters. Coverage of The Sproutie is now up to 18.3MHz, and while I know from previous experience that it […]
Note – If you have read this article before and are checking back in, it would be a good idea to clear your cache, to ensure that you are viewing the very latest version of this post. I do add material and make corrections from time to time. It’s been about a year since I […]
Around the same time I heard from Andy M6YAO that he had finished his Sproutie, I heard from Henri F6GMQ, who was also building a Sproutie and close to completion. A Sproutie in Orsay, in the North of France – how inspiring! To my knowledge, there are now 3 Sprouties in existence – Henri and […]
Andy and I have been communicating via e-mail since April. He is M6YAO now but back in April, he was plain old unlicensed Andy, who was about to apply for his Foundation License in the UK. He had built a Mark regen from Walford Electronics, which seems to have given him a taste for regens. […]
I had meant to tell you about the new online discussion group for regen builders in the last post, but it slipped my mind. Sometimes, when writing blog-posts, my big concern is to get it finished, so I can put it behind me and move on to the next new, interesting thing. In the midst […]
Firstly, I must apologize for posting so many pictures of these National HRO gear drives and dials. Once I decided that a building a regen with one of these dials and drives as the centerpiece was a goal, it became something of a preoccupation to find both a dial and drive that were just right. […]
The gradual (and selective) acquisition of vintage radio parts here continues, as I hone in on the perfect tuning dial and drive for my next regen, I’ve been wanting to find a really nice National HRO Micrometer dial and drive for the purpose, and have finally found it. I had to purchase 4 dials and […]
This morning, my 2 eldest kitties did a real number on me. The senior was the first. At about 5am, she sat on her food shelf (one of 3 shelves mounted on the wall next to my bed, specifically for the cats to hang out on), next to her empty food bowl and began meowing […]
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