Hello all!

Well, my obsession with building those vintage ARRL
1940’s receivers continues.

I’m afraid that I’ve become totally addicted!

Here are a few photo’s of my most recent concoction.

I’m posting the original photo’s from the ARRL handbook
In order to show the comparison between the original and my
reproduction, some 66 years later.

Once again, I’m impressed by the functionality of
these units!

(I really need to get on the air more with a homebrew
x-mitter!)

The ARRL original:


My version:


The ARRL original:


My version:


The ARRL original:


My version:


The ARRL original:


My version:


And, the schematic:



I’ve got more photo’s to post for later

Cheers!

--Big Nick AKA KC9KEP

Very nice. How's it work?

rickd,

It works *very* well, thanks

So far, I've only wound coils for 80 & 40m. It took a bit of
re-winding to get the 40m coil to target where I had
wanted them. (The 80m coils worked as described in the text.)

Most of the RF between the converter & oscillator coil are
mounted "above deck", supposedly so that one can receive
up to 60 Mc. (or, 60Hz )

I could not locate the original Miller permeability IF coils .. the
IF transformers that I've used are capacitively tuned, but seem to
work fine.

And, the BFO coil was scavenged out of an old Hammarlund
receiver, intended for 455kHz. I selected a few different capacitors
for the BFO and placed the coil into and abandoned IF can,
previously for IF.

This receiver's IF is at 1600kHz.

I can tune in SBB & CW very nicely.

The radio is intended to go down into the 75-154kHz range too.

But, I'll need to get around to winding more coils!

--Big Nick

That's some really nice work! Indeed, you'll have to build a transmitter to go with one of these.

How did you do the panels? A first-class panel job like that really makes the project look professional.

You are really reliving the glory days of amateur radio -- when home built gear of all kinds was at least as common as commercial stuff. Don't see much of that these days.

That is a really nice "reproduction" and with a speaker. My kind of radio! I love your front panel.

I agree, you have to build a transmitter to match.

Thanks for the kinds words .. it’s a lotta work!

The front panel was made by using a CO2 laser engraver.

There are some photo’s of the process several threads back.

Here’s a couple more front panel shots:







I did post a few pix of my transmitter a ways back. It’s not quite as vintage:

Here’s a link: http://www.bignick.net/images/RadioPix/ ... se_WEB.jpg

And a picture:


Actually, I was listening to an 80m net this AM. The guys were complaining that
the FCC wanted to dump the AM privileges on 80m and 160m. They were
comparing he change to the new TV broadcasting standard that will make most current
TV sets obsolete.

Great. Just when I start gearing up, the world gears down!
(or, vice versa!)

--Big

Woops!

Bad link to my transmitter page!

It should be:

http://www.bignick.net/Morgan_Radio/Radio_11.htm

Sorry de snorry,

--Big Nick

Looks like you got it-down and beautifully. Im just getting started on coils

Nick-

Those are real works of art. I envy your craftsmanship . Your wiring is as neet as the schematic.

Kevin

Nick, delicious-looking stuff. We are all insanely jealous!

Reece

For some reason, I can't find that one... Can you link it or give the title of the thread?

Probably means this thread:
http://antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtop ... 2b559e8f9a

Thanks! I didn't look quite far enough down the list...