Ten-Tec 9 Band Regenerative Receiver #1253

My first regen radio.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• shortwave
• regenerative
• receiver

[ljebnet]

The Ten-Tec kit has a sensitivity option so I connected it with the switch. It's like a local/dx switch. Although with a 80 ft random wire antenna it doesn't need the extra sensitivity.

[eogg25]

to bad these guys thrue the kits away, i would have bought them, and made them work. nless they butchered the boards so bad they couldnt be repaired.love kits.

[Radninja88]

@mnpd007 So much negativity on this rig. Seems like ljebnet's got it working good!

[mnpd007]

Congratulations at getting this thing working from the xeroxed construcion manual where the images and charts look like charcoal drawing made by a 5th grader. The more kit building experience you have, the more your experience is going to work against you.  Tried to order new board and parts, but it was after hours Friday, so I went to the webpage for "order parts" which had one sentence on it... "These are not available." Garbage bag time... and out the garbage went. Yes, it's garbage.

[mnpd007]

I've built dozens of kits over the past 30-40 years as a ham, and have never seen any assembly kit so poorly constructed. The single-screened boards are printed for single-side use, but TT expects you mounted components on both sides of the board. It looks as if the parts were made for a different application, and TT pressed them into service for their own decide. The manual is gargage, and TT doens't even print "front" and "back" on the boards, choosing instead to have you guess at it.

[mnpd007]

I ordered it but won't ever hear it play. The Bandswitch board is screened single-side, but TT expects you to mount the componenents on BOTH sides, following a low-res xeroxed copy of the manual. The sides were not even marked "front" and "back". I tried to understand the mess, mounted the parts on both sides as I thought the lousy print and poor images were instructing, then found I had mounted everything backwards and that it wouldn't fit the panel. I threw the entire kit in the garbage.

[fenech97]

Nice video. What does the switch on the left do? Thanks for sharing.

[NG9D]

Great job!

Say, can you tell us what the toggle switch on the left side does? ... and what kind of antenna you are using?

Thanks for the video.

73 de NG9D