15 Jun
2006
15 Jun
'06
1:12 a.m.
On 6/13/2006 at 8:22 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Have you (or anyone else) come across the 'Improverished Radio
Experimenter' books? THey're fairly modern (in the last 5 years or so),
and describe making valve receivers using this type of construction. The
valves go into those screw-terminal octal sockets normally used for
relays, coils, including the IF transformers are hand-wound on cardboard
tubes, etc). The result is a 3 valve superhet that takes up most of a
desk, but which apparently works.
-tony
That was the way I learned how to build things as
well, only we started
with a hunk of blank sheet metal and ended up with a 5-tube radio. :-)
In my case, it was a piece of 3/4" thick pine board. If you didn't have
surface-mount sockets, you mounted the under-chassis type with spacers so