Artisan, I have been thinking a bit about your observed increase in range gained by elevating the end of your antenna above the roof line. One thing...
"As for considering Part 15 a boundary condition, I would venture to say that a radio signal that is generated by at most 1 milliwatt (0.001 w...
I am interested to know re: "...and Part 15 broadcasting is certainly a boundary condition for radio signals" what you mean by boundary condition? I...
I just spent 20 minutes on a reply in this thread and even used CTRL-A routine and the text was lost. I might or might not try again to post it. Rig...
Some info for Rich Powers and anyone else who is interested. When the Part15.us site was hacked the moderators and administrator lost control of the ...
Carl, I agree with "An amplifier can be truly linear with poor transient response, but the quality of signal would be impaired." What I had in mind w...
Tell an engineer to design something which "pleases the ear" and you will likely elicit a response that they will produce a device which does not "col...
TheLegacy wrote : "...a solution and that was to put the antenna up in the attic? Yes it may cut the range a bit but surly will be better than that wi...
Carl posted "One thing that was important to notice is that the numbers on the dial top off at 1600, so maybe this radio doesn’t capture the X-band ? ...
Brooce, Tube type or transistor? Recapping tube radios is more involved because the leakage through coupling caps can destroy tubes so these, as wel...
Radio Joe, Now that's some serious car radio collecting. You are doing it right. Brooce, The antenna for my radio was just a whip in the basement ...
Here it is! It was mounted so that the front of the radio where the speaker mounts fires frontward out of the radio toward the front seat from just u...
Rich, Your comments are very interesting and I will try to respond to convey further understanding. The year in question was about 1956 and the comm...
It was great to read the comments about this old car radio project. After I posted the OP I looked up the schematic and discovered that the output st...