wrote:

Squire-

I'm going to take your comment on face value and assume that your
receiver is indeed functional but for lack of proper regeneration. If
this is the case, I would guess that the most common cause of this kind
of problem is improper phasing of your tuning/ticker coils.

It would help if you could post or point to a schematic from which you
worked, but let me suggest this. Lift both leads from you tickler
winding and then swap them. This may be all it takes to fix the problem.

BTW: Check out this simple receiver by Charles, N1TEV. It follows, more
or less, the architecture I proposed, and apparently works well. PCBs
are available.

http://www.electronics-tutorials.com...o-receiver.htm

Here is a simpler circuit by regenerative radio guru C. F. Rocky.

http://www.mines.uidaho.edu/~glowbugs/FETREGN2.gif

H.P. "Pete" Friedrichs
AC7ZL



Well, I did try to build a regenerative receiver to demonstrate to the
class,
but I couldn't get regeneration. Shall I mail it to you to see if you
can debug it?

Thanks,

The Eternal Squire