FIXED! Following up on suggestions from Tony Fishpool and from Roy Morgan, I put a 10 ohm resistor between the two supply lines and put 100 uF caps to ground at either end of the resistor. I can now operate the receiver at high AF gain (no problem running a speaker) without the KLUDGE of two power supplies. The RX sounds great. I will soon match it up with the equally awesome Tuna Tin 2 for 1976 QRP EXTRAVAGANZA.
Our book: "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics"
http://soldersmoke.com/book.htm
Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: http://www.cafepress.com/SolderSmoke
Our Book Store: http://astore.amazon.com/contracross-20
Posts
Crystal Radios • Re: Silver plated wire...
-
The fact that the wire in the Amazon link is advertised as tarnish
resistant is a sure sign that it's not put silver, and possibly not silver
at all except...
1 hour ago
No comments:
Post a Comment