08-11-2018, 11:23 PM
I have to admit that that rectifier looks really out of place on top of the transformer.
Mike
Mike
Civilian Wartime Receiver
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08-11-2018, 11:23 PM
I have to admit that that rectifier looks really out of place on top of the transformer.
Mike
09-11-2018, 01:09 AM
Phillips used to put the rectifier above the transformer on quite a few models.
09-11-2018, 02:20 PM
I have now removed the 4,700pF capacitor from the top right of the chassis, and re-connected it underneath. This has not affected the performance in any way, but it looks tidier! I have also found a shiny looking 6V6 to further improve its appearance. The receiver works fairly well without an aerial of any sort, but if I connect a three foot length of wire to the aerial terminal, it increases the volume considerably. I am seriously impressed by the performance of this simple receiver.
Bob
09-11-2018, 06:10 PM
(08-11-2018, 06:37 PM)ppppenguin Wrote: The Volksempfänger and its little brother the Kleinempfanger were designed solely for listening Goebbels' radio. As Trevor said, they didn't want their good aryan populus listening to muck from the BBC. https://www.bvws.org.uk/publications/bul...n_26_1.pdf p. 20 refers. I understand that article has been translated into German, printed in the German equivalent of the BVWS Bulletin and is regarded in Germany as definitive. Since it was written by a Briton, is it too much to hope British commentators might read it?
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John Ruskin
09-11-2018, 07:01 PM
Have just read it! I have, or did have quite a few of the receivers shown in the document. The German Peoples Radios don't look much like the one I had. It did not have a chassis, but was built on a sheet of paxolin and had variometer tuning. One of the valves had a pointed top to the glass envelope (not a pip - a cone-shaped point!).
I like the Meccano radio's variable capacitor. I made a variable capacitor once - Bob
09-11-2018, 08:30 PM
Bob, that's a rather nice bit of construction.
www.borinsky.co.uk Jeffrey Borinsky www.becg.tv
10-11-2018, 02:16 PM
And here we have a demonstration of the receiver actually working via Utube - It is 4 minutes in duration -
https://youtu.be/WhGgPOhZ4a8 Bob
10-11-2018, 03:39 PM
Excellent.
Was that demo with just a few feet of wire as an aerial. impressive. I was wondering if the AGC was working, it seemed to go a bit distorted on the louder stations. Mike |
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