[Heath] AR-3 stories.

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi,

I have used low end superhets and well built regens. A good regen can 
hold it's own if you know to use it. Of course, there are also poorly 
built, little toy radio regens too. I built a few of that kind myself 
when I was a kid. You have to build any radio like you really mean it if 
you want good results.

73,

Bill  KU8H


On 01/25/2016 11:38 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> On 24 Jan 2016 at 20:38, Rick Bilbro wrote:
>
>> Let me say, that I concluded that a novice like me in 1959 that could not afford
>> a really high quality super heterodyne receiver at least good or better than an
>> SX-99, an HQ-110 or a NC-98, would be better off using a regenerative type of
>> shortwave received for 80 and 40 meters over the S-38 or S-41 or SW-54!
> Oh, I absolutely agree with that!
>
> After the BC-348 my Mom bought me, I traded that for an RAL-7, which
> covered 15 meters. For those who don't know, that is a large Navy TRF
> receiver with 2 RF amp stages, a regenerative detector, 2 stages of audio,
> and a limiter covering 300 kHz through 23 MHz.
>
> It worked so well that I used it as my main station receiver for the next 12
> years.
>
>> I am sure that these low end commercial receivers had better selectivity than a
>> regenerative receiver.
> Not necessarily...
>
> Ken W7EKB
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