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Building a new shortwave tube radio
On Nov 11, 5:52*am, wrote:
*With the survivalist market as well as the DIYers who would build a kit I have given thought to the idea of building a new tube shortwave receiver as a usable, practical set. *That means no regens, no DC bull****, and no plug in coils. It must have production grade RF and IF coils, a bandswitch, and require alignment. If sold as a kit the builder will need a RF generator and a scope (or a spec an or CSM with a track gen). *It should use off the shelf parts even if those shelves are bare, as it is better to copy an existing item than design from scratch. I would clone the Eddystone dial mechanism and the bandswitch and coils from some Hallicrafters or Hammarlund set, they could be sold as desperately needed replacement spares for the old sets too. I would use a seeing eye tube mounted in a hole in the dial as opposed to a meter movement, again, getting a run of new tubes made is possible if you are buying several thousand. There are some surplus that could be used if really needed too. *I would use a separate power supply and speaker for several reasons. *I would have the radio take in B+ and heater voltage and put out 600 ohm +4 audio. A regular supply could be used at home or car battery and a switchmode brick for B+. A headphone jack would be supplied off this tube. *The set should cover 500 kHz to 30 MHz, AM, SSB and CW, with a product detector of course. A 455 kHz IF is needed so as to use common mechanical or crystal filters, which are optional. There should also be a 455 kHz IF out for an external synchronous detector. Any other comments? The need for testgear to align the IF will wipe out 99.9% of any potential market. As pointed out, its going to be far too expensive. If you took that to heart and tried to make something far cheaper, regeneration, although a definite compromise, is a dead sure way to cut costs a lot, and has angelic AGC performance. I recall a simple 3 valve 1930s regen set giving rock steady audio on a signal even an exceptionally complex modern dx set couldnt stabilise. NT |
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