Walter KA4KXX spotted an error in the schematic of my 2014 "Off the Shelf" regen receiver: The source resistor on the MPF-102 should be 2200 ohms, not 2.7 ohms. See:
Walter's e-mail caused me to take this old receiver off the shelf. In this video you can listen to it in action on the shortwave broadcast bands. In a second video I put it on the 40 meter ham band and listen to some SSB.
Such a beautiful article.Β Β Ramakrishnan VU2JXN sent it to me.Β It reminded me of how puzzeled we were when we found "Schenectady" on old shortwave receiver dials, amidst truly exotic locations.Β Rangoon!Β Peking!Β Cape Town!Β Schenectady?Β Β Obviously this was due to General Electric's location in that New York State city.Β But reading this article, I am thinking that the presence of Charles Proteus Steinmetz had something to do with it. His informal title (The Wizard of Schenectady)Β confirmed that we have been right in awarding similar titles to impressive homebrewers.Β
Here is the Smithsonian article that Ramakrishnan sent.Β