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. […]
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 […]
Many of us in the home-brewer community were really disappointed when Todd VE7BPO recently discontinued his popular and very through-provoking site “The QRP/SWL Homebuilder”. An archive of the site is available for download in pdf form and is a great resource. Though not quite the same as having the site, it’s great to have a […]
Since completing The Sproutie Regen in it’s basic form in August of last year, I have been spending lots of time listening to it, and also some time winding coils for extra bands. On top of that, I wanted to add some extra thoughts and observations on building it and instead of creating a new […]
I was quite excited when Aaron N9SKN told me he was building a Sproutie. Sometime earlier, I had discovered his website, billed as the “Home Of The 500mA Sidetone Oscillator/Shack Heater” I was searching for information on building HF receivers, and came across Aaron’s build of W7ZOI and K5IRK’s Progressive Receiver, as described in the […]
Since building The Sproutie a few months ago I have had a great deal of fun with it. It is only the 4th regen I have ever built, but it is the best one so far. One of my main motivations for building it was to own a “serious” regen. I have long thought that […]
Many apologies for taking so long to get these videos up. The only camera I have that can do video is so old and gives such poor quality video, that it’s a little tough for me to feel inspired in that direction. I do like to put quality still pictures on my blog, and am […]
NOTE – Many thanks to Aaron N9SKN and Cliff WA9YXG, who pointed out errors in the schematics. They have been corrected. N9SKN, and several others, have built working Sprouties from the schematics in this post so rest assured that if you follow them, you can too. If you’re thinking about building this great little general […]
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