Vacuum Tube Regenerative Radio Receiver Kit

[zunzhinedude]

Hi, I just bought one of these kits myself. Two questions:

What frequency range does it cover, and, was the sound from your local stations

recorded from the earphone plug, or from your digicams mic?

[VA3TY]

@zunzhinedude It covers the Medium Wave band. Approximately 510 KHz to 1710 KHz. You can add capacitance to lower the range or as I have done, build another coil winding with fewer turns to raise the frequency range. It becomes much more difficult to tune at higher frequencies. I've been able to get up to the 160 and 80 metre Amateur Band to copy CW, but it's not stable and drifts. Forget about SSB, though possible on the 160m band the stability makes voice copy difficult at best.

[zunzhinedude]

@VA3TY Hi, thanks for taking the time to answer. I look forward to try it out, I love this kit. Maybe i can use it pick up your local 20s format radio station from here in Norway. :)

[Ferroless]

just found it in Mita local shop, wonder shall I by it for creating steampunk mode or better not?

[cassetteman1]

The tube is not for decoration? because according to my conaissances, a tube runs from the very high voltage, or it works with batteries! thank you for letting me know.

[PWBERRETT]

Link for website

use website mentioned in video and add

/product/GAK05465

[hydrolisk1792]

OMFG, that thing looks like a piece of garbage. I LOVE old tube radios and stuff like that and I can;t believe that a tube radio was made in Japan, WTF is the world comming to!!! I'll bet those are REPRO tubes too that weere made in freaking China. No thanks, I'll build my own from scratch with quality parts and withouy a freakingn PCD. The beauty of the older radios were the "floating" components :) Nice design, but don't prefer plastic on something like that.

[racedinghy]

please note

you can build from scratch

a better regen receiver

for less money

even if you need to buy all the parts from

Antique Electronics supply

and

your home brew receiver will not look like

a strange kinda plastic thing

[jyen322]

Is there anyway to reconfigure it to receive FM?

[iaresquared]

Nice work OM. A lot of folks will appreciate the attention to the regeneration circuit, and the loop antenna. Not to mention the WWII music - nice touch.

73's

KI4WOU

[Bashnja1]

Very nice.But the Ten Tec Omni in the background captures my imagination much more.

[knikk77]

What radio is in the background there? Yaesu?

[CorvusDei]

Sir:

Do you have any idea where one might obtain this kit from now? The website you listed does not offer it any more, and web searches are not bringing up much.

CD

[supressorgrid]

I went to the HLJ website and never found the kit, just model planes ,dolls and such.

[diyprojects]

I need help with my kit. It does nothing but hum and it is very quiet.

[VA3TY]

The most troublesome area is the connection of the loop antenna. If you wind it incorrectly it won't work. You must wind all the time in the same direction for every loop.

Next you must connect all wires from the antenna correctly. If two are switched backwards, you won't get regeneration.

I suggest you go over the antenna and verify everything is done correctly.

Good luck!

[asterbaster96]

I noticed that your old account got deleted when I tried to access this video from my favorites.

After searching with the title I finally found it.

One project that I want to do is download my favorite videos in flv file along with the description, the original uploader, and if possible all of the comments.