This here is a 1920’s type regenerative shortwave radio receiver I am building one step at a time, Hopefully we can build the plug in coils one at a time rather than building one big one to keep it all as simple as possible. 11/08/2009 The radio works by regeneration (feedback) i believe discove...
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Hallicrafters' version of a farm radio. Standard four-tube battery radio, AM and Shortwave. Like all farm radios of the day, this one uses a LARGE Eveready 759 AB battery pack, 1.5 volts A, 90 volts B. The originals used six Number 6 cells in the A section, so you can only imagine how heavy ...
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One of the earliest multi-band portables. This particular model used a 50 volt rectifier tube and two line resistor cords in its power supply. Previous owner removed the cords and installed two wirewound resistors on the access panel. I removed one resistor and installed a 117 volt rectifier, ...
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Here’s my one tube portable from the Eastern Bloc: a 1957 ZRK Szarotka from Poland. It's directly based on a Siemens Grazietta radio from a few years earlier. Szarotka means mountain flower in Polish. I always wanted one of these, but they were all in Europe, and shipping would be too great to b...
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