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Vintage-Style Radio Receiver


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Don't know what categfory this comes into. It is a cross between obsolete radio technology, light engineering and model building. It is a vintage-style radio receiver that I designed and built over the past two or three weeks. The three valves are between 80 and 90 years old. The set is powered by a two Volt sealed lead-acid battery to light the filaments, and 99 Volts high tension, obtained from eleven small 9 Volt batteries clipped back to back. It covers the AM medium waveband, and has good selectivity at good loudspeaker volume. The capacitors, coils and resistors are modern components that I have disguised to look like vintage items. The shiny screening cans are two stainless steel salt-sellers obtained from a car boot sale. The variable capacitors were salvaged from old radio sets obtained form car boot sales.

Bob

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