Homemade 4-Tube FM radio

[MrRaddios]

great sound

[WarPig182]

Can you email me the wiring diagram for this? I would like to build one.

[rockangel1967]

i wonder if you continued on this project? put everything in a proper chassis / enclosure, added a magic eye and a tuning scala?

[retrochad]

@rockangel1967 I am going to try and improve this radio but want to keep it just the same...I do have some more junk tube radio chassis that I would like to build another homemade radio though.

[rockangel1967]

@retrochad hi chad. cool. i can't wait to see your next project. was on your website. nice one. i want to build a FM tube radio with a magic eye. thats why i asked... i have a EM84 here

[teamfab]

Very good..

[tomek123kotek]

the problem is id rather make a modern day radio fom scratch with every single component rather than this because you just connected some wires together and it works... i have to solder a lot of things and thn it works

[RyuDarragh]

Can't help but repeat "wow!". A classic "junk parts box" radio. That's some decent design skill, there :)

[hawk7342]

It`s amazing how valvuled radios produces very high quality sond ! I wish i could build one as a hobby , but valves are quite rare here in Brazil .

[renekenshin6573]

O.O WOW

[dnl5649]

wow chad! thats a really nice radio, it seems to have good sensitivity and very good sound quality

[Shockszzbyyous]

how do you calculate the coil for fm frequentie's?

[TAC19jm]

nice FMs sound !!!

[lunatictm]

Cleveland from family guy. WHOA

[dodgedart74]

gigady

[bob505470]

not even

[TheYusukesCraft]

So amazing, wonderful work, being FM radio using tube is good. Is there anyway to get schematic drawing?

[puyansude]

Nice project! Bravo.

[mig189189189]

Awesome video. Keep on with that good work!

One day youll be a millionaire radio expert!

[nzoomed]

does it give you stereo sound?

[sz42781]

mmmm K?

[sz42781]

lul @ voice

[listenact]

That's so amazing that you can build that stuff. You're an artist!

[DRNEGOLICIS]

ive been looking for a am fm lw mw sw and marine band radio with tubes caint find one guess im just gonna have to make it like this one

[hrbear]

Tell us the schematic. :-)

[tim78704]

This is very cool! I've been searching around for AM, FM and short wave plans that use tube electronics. :)

[DavesFarmFan]

put a bar tuner on it and you are good to go!

[MIKEPREAMP]

When you were a kid were you as fascinated by the electronics books by Alfred P. Morgan, as I was?

[blinkynoo]

I'm impressed, well done! There's something to be said for old valves etc. Good quality stuff that lasts. Not like the crap thats produced nowadays.

[borri317]

what kind of detector it uses

[disgruntldtoad]

Ohhh and the best part was when you first turned it one and first thing out was rap music. I just found it funny coming out of a tube radio

[disgruntldtoad]

You sound just like a fella I talk to on my local 2 meter repeater in the Cincinnati area. Cheers on the homebrew receiver!

[hytlerson]

what a quality. really nice

[carrierpilot1357]

go tubes!

[radioam232]

I like the way you built it using parts from other electronics. And sounds very good. Five stars.

[retrochad]

Thanks!

[micellis11]

is there anyway I could get the schematic for this from you? I'd like to build something like this for a design project for my EET class

[CassetteMaster]

WOW! That is so neat! Neat job and goood sound quality! The commercial at the end I rrecognize hearing before! And, what type of camera do you use? The picture looks interesting on your videos with its love for yellow.

[retrochad]

The camera I'm sure is not the greatest! It's an RCA VHS w/color viewfinder I got at Goodwill. I don't think the white balance is compensating well for indoor lighting. Sometime I'd like to get a better, more modern camera.

[speedyc395]

Sounds great!

[heifish]

great job. could you show the underside and post the schematic diagram?

[coondogtheman1234]

hahaha I liked that snoop dogg song in the beginning at 1:26, that was cool please play more rap stations like the one that was on when the radio started to play

[wilkes85]

Awesome.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

It sounds great! The ratio detector circuit has a good capture. The quality of the audio is wonderful. Really nice job!

[damusician]

that one badass radio their!

[sq2iii]

Nice desing

[Organgrinder010]

Marvelous! What a great way to make use of old parts.

[jasonlava]

Sounding good! You have alot of country stations in your area lol. I like that Zenith TV in the background. is that a black and white?

[retrochad]

Thanks for your comments! Yes we do have a lot of country stations...2 FM and 3 AM.

The TV in the background is a 1979 23V" delta gun Zenith Chromacolor II with space command. I was using it earlier to listen to some music from the DirectTV XM channels so that's why there's just a blank raster.