In article ,
(John Byrns) wrote:

In article , Patrick Turner
wrote:

John,

You seem to be limiting your considerations to the 'tangential clipping'
and not to other distortions that will occur.

On the contrary I alluded to the other problems in my post above where I
said "while the traditional RC circuit has its problems". The problem is
that Patrick has a very thick head, so I am trying to keep things simple
so he might get the point.

Oh, thank God the dueling banjos of rec.audio.tubes are back with more
of their lethally boring detector talk.

You don't often have a Troll this technical although it is getting more
goofy by the post.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Oh, thank God the dueling banjos of rec.audio.tubes are back with more
of their lethally boring detector talk.

You don't often have a Troll this technical although it is getting more
goofy by the post.


Not a complete troll, as we are attempting to figure out a way to
get decent sound reception from AM radio stations. We believe that it
can be done, and we're hashing out the details. And adding a bit of
flame war spice to liven things up... ;-)

"Robert Casey" wrote in message
...


Not a complete troll, as we are attempting to figure out a way to
get decent sound reception from AM radio stations.

I know it's subjective, but I think most AM radios sound decent. Some sound
even better. Authoritative sources say the distortion of the typical diode
detector is under 2%, which makes sense. There's been some unsupported
ideas posted on rec.radio.shortwave that diode detectors normally have much
higher distortion levels.

Most of my radios are tube radios. Many transistor radios sound horrible on
AM. I tend to think poor AM audio from transistor radios is caused by
running the diode detector at low voltages into a low impedance load, but
I've never checked it out.


We believe that it
can be done, and we're hashing out the details.

Yeah, but how much distortion do we get from transmitter modulation?
Selective fading? A zero distortion AM detector may not be a hell of alot
better than a properly designed diode detector.

And adding a bit of
flame war spice to liven things up... ;-)


Godwin got it wrong. Threads can go on indefinitely without mentioning
Nazis. But if they run long they will get personal.

Frank Dresser