"Robert Casey" wrote in message
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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