Hi,
I am looking for a copy of a construction article on a single compactron FM
receiver. The article appeared in an 1961 issue of Popular Electronics.
If anyone has the issue and would copy the article for me I would pay them
for their trouble.
Richard
K1TAV

I can't believe you found that.
Thanks so much!
Richard

"genev" wrote in message
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I can't believe you found that.
Thanks so much!
Richard

I built that VHF receiver when I was a kid!!!!!!! 6C10 triple triode
compactron: grounded gridRFA, superreg-detector/one stage audio??

Wow. Brings back memories!

Pete

"genev" wrote in message
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Hi,
I am looking for a copy of a construction article on a single compactron
FM receiver. The article appeared in an 1961 issue of Popular
Electronics.
If anyone has the issue and would copy the article for me I would pay them
for their trouble.
Richard
K1TAV


Public library has these on micro fiche. I noticed recently that they are
changing over to CD. I guess someone cold go in with a lap top and copy
watever they wanted.

"Uncle Peter" ) writes:
"genev" wrote in message
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I can't believe you found that.
Thanks so much!
Richard

I built that VHF receiver when I was a kid!!!!!!! 6C10 triple triode
compactron: grounded gridRFA, superreg-detector/one stage audio??

Wow. Brings back memories!

Pete


Do you remember or did you see the "high end" VHF receiver construction
article that Popular Electronics ran a few years later?

I think it was sort of modularized, so there was a tuneable or more
likely fixed IF section, and then converters for the low band and the
high band and maybe the aero band. It wasn't that spectacular a receiver,
it might have had a tuneable local oscillator going into the first mixer
and certainly the only selectivity came from IF transformers in the
MHz range. But it certainly was more complicated than the run of
the mill "police band" receiver construction articles that were
described in the hobby electronic magazines.

Michael VE2BVW

"Michael Black" wrote in message
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"Uncle Peter" ) writes:
"genev" wrote in message
...
I can't believe you found that.
Thanks so much!
Richard

I built that VHF receiver when I was a kid!!!!!!! 6C10 triple triode
compactron: grounded gridRFA, superreg-detector/one stage audio??

Wow. Brings back memories!

Pete


Do you remember or did you see the "high end" VHF receiver construction
article that Popular Electronics ran a few years later?

I think it was sort of modularized, so there was a tuneable or more
likely fixed IF section, and then converters for the low band and the
high band and maybe the aero band. It wasn't that spectacular a receiver,
it might have had a tuneable local oscillator going into the first mixer
and certainly the only selectivity came from IF transformers in the
MHz range. But it certainly was more complicated than the run of
the mill "police band" receiver construction articles that were
described in the hobby electronic magazines.

Michael VE2BVW


Hi Michael

Probably not, as I was a young teen and picked up what I could afford
at the local newstand. I guess the issue with that earlier compactron
project was one of the ones I happened to buy. Sad to say, a Heath
VF-1 provided the enclosure!

Pete

genev wrote:

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It would be interesting to see an "update" done to this article--using a
quad UHF opamp ...

Regards,
JS