I’ve often had to kloodge together an audio transformer, jacks and other stuff to make a medium impedance output match a low impedance headphone. But it turns into a mess of wires and parts dangling from a transformer. I thought about what I would do to make a box with the necessary stuff, like inputs,
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from FB group Building Transistor Radios July 6 Bill Korbak The early germanium alloy transistors didn’t have enough bandwidth for RF, they were only good for audio. That’s where I built my first amplifier, a three transistor audio amp on a PC board I etched in ferric chloride. I also built the power amplifier. It
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from FB group Vintage Transistor Radios Apr 29 Robert Abend Yeah, thanks for bringing that up. Many of the GE radios have a center tapped coil in their armature speakers. I never really thought about the unusual CT voice coil. The most important reason why is that a voice coil moves and has to be
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from FB group Regenerative Receiver… Apr 8 庄议翔 The power transformers have the laminations interleaved. The first lamination has an E then I, the next one has I then E. So the transformer core does not have any air gaps, because it does not have any DC flowing through the windings. The transformers for single
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from FB group Bell Telephone of… Apr 6 (I bought a transmission test set, TTS-4, photo at bottom.) Glenn Peters We had a HP 493something transmission test set for testing up to 56 kb/s lines. I remember seeing the symbols on the green screen, like a carriage return would look like a little ‘CR’. The
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from FB group Vintage Transistor Radios April 6 I clicked on the link and I looked at the schematic. I’m surprised that in 1959 they had a radio that used the OTL amplifier to drive the spkr. I remember OTL was used in the early ’60s for Hi Fi amps, but I didn’t think that
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from FB group Building Transistor Radios Tuck Choy I was a reel to reel tape recorder fanatic when I was a kid, and had a recorder with a 6V6 output to the spkr. The first thing I did was modify the recorder to add an external spkr. One time I plugged in a clip leads
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from FB group Vintage Transistor Radios 2019 Mar 5 The ear is not as sensitive to low ‘bass’ frequencies so they use a lot of power. If the speaker is large enough to reproduce them, they will use quite a bit of power. With pocket radios, the audio amplifiers are limited in low frequency response
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FB group Building transistor radios 2018-01-09 Willie Barnett That is one deficiency of your circuit: the output transistors do not have the ‘bootstrapped’ bias resistor. I’ll explain why it’s needed. In your circuit, the signal turns the driver transistor as close to off as possible. The current through the base bias resistor causes the top
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from FB group Building Transistor Radios 2018-12-22 Mike van Kleeff Most of the European radios sold in the US were probably brought in by GIs who came back from their military deployment in foreign countries. I was in Germany in ’69 and saw some European electronics and I was impressed by the performance. But what
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