. QST . least at the beginning. This article describes the construction of asimple one-tube regenerative receiver that willfulfill the basic requirements for communicationswork. The title of the article states that thereceiver is a one-tube job. Actually, it uses twotubes in one envelope — envelope meaning theglass enclosure. The 6U8 is a triode-pentode, andin this receiver the pentode section is used as aregenerative detector and the triode portion asan audio amplifier. With this receiver it is possible to hear amateurand commercial stations in the 2- to This tuning range will en
. QST . least at the beginning. This article describes the construction of asimple one-tube regenerative receiver that willfulfill the basic requirements for communicationswork. The title of the article states that thereceiver is a one-tube job. Actually, it uses twotubes in one envelope — envelope meaning theglass enclosure. The 6U8 is a triode-pentode, andin this receiver the pentode section is used as aregenerative detector and the triode portion asan audio amplifier. With this receiver it is possible to hear amateurand commercial stations in the 2- to This tuning range will enable the builderto listen to the two low-frequency Novice , if one is interested in obtaining codepractice, WlAW, the ARRL Hq. station, can betuned in for its nightly code-practice sessions. The Circuit The circuit used in this receiver differs in a fewplaces from the usual regenerative-receiver cir-cuit. For example, instead of the usual smallantenna-coupling capacitor or inductor, provision. was included here for either a series- or parallel-tuned antenna circuit. This allows a wide rangeof coupling adjustments to be obtained, as isoften necessary with regenerative receivers. Referring to Fig. 1, the antenna coil, Li,couples the signal to the detector tuned circuitL2C2C3. The capacitor, C2, is larger than C3 andis used as the handset capacitor — once Czis set for a particular frequency range, C3 is usedas the bandspread tuning control. To facilitateusing manufactured coils, the coil L2 is tappedto obtain a feed-back or tickler winding. Re-generation in the detector is controlled bychanging the screen voltage obtained at thepotentiometer Ri. An filter, using two cap-acitors and an choke, is placed in the platecircuit of the pentode detector to reduce at the grid of the triode audio ampli-fier. Still further attenuation of at the gridis obtained through the use of a series resistorand a shunt capacitor right at the grid of theaudio sta
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