30-04-2015, 04:30 PM
(29-04-2015, 07:39 PM)Refugee Wrote: The meter leads will have worked like an aerial so that you got stations on the radio.
I didn't leave the leads connected. I'd just touched the condenser and then reception just started up. It sounded fine although I'd be wise to do a lot more tests yet of resistors and so on.
It's been a lot of work over the last couple of weeks so I'm winding down a bit now. A bit later I'll buy a smaller soldering iron and see if I can sort out the Bush transistor radio. The valve set was a bit easier for me as I'm a bit more familiar with valves than semiconductors.
P.S. I still have a 1939 Halycon 4 tube TRF and it would be terrific to hear that run again. Has a grid leak detector and a metal rectifier.
