{"id":12799,"date":"2018-03-02T10:27:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T18:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12799"},"modified":"2018-03-02T11:54:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T19:54:08","slug":"2018-03-02-one-transistor-am-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12799","title":{"rendered":"2018-03-02 One Transistor AM Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FB group Building Transistor Radios<\/p>\n<p>In JF1OZL&#8217;s voluminous archive I found his version of a MW receiver.&nbsp; It is labeled [2] &#8230;. MW-RADIO (see link).&nbsp; He used a long wire antenna, and an IF transformer with the ceramic capacitor removed for the tuning coil.&nbsp; He also said to use a ferrite loopstick, which is what I and most others would use.<br \/>\nThe 1N60 detector diode has a 100k resistor as a DC path to common ground.&nbsp; Some experimenters don&#8217;t use any resistor, they depend on the diode&#8217;s leakage current for the DC path.&nbsp; This is foolish because the leakage depends on temperature so the performance may vary &#8211; cold gives the least leakage.<\/p>\n<p>The input impedance of the transistor is only a few thousand ohms, so it places a heavy load on the detector, and causes poor selectivity.&nbsp; I would put another transistor between, using the common collector or emitter follower configuration so the input impedance would be very high.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.intio.or.jp\/jf10zl\/9pr1tr.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FB group Building Transistor Radios In JF1OZL&#8217;s voluminous archive I found his version of a MW receiver.&nbsp; It is labeled [2] &#8230;. MW-RADIO (see link).&nbsp; He used a long wire antenna, and an IF transformer with the ceramic capacitor removed for the tuning coil.&nbsp; He also said to use a ferrite loopstick, which is what<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12799\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,338,293,7,262,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am-band","category-building-projects-and-kits","category-do-it-yourself","category-radio-frequency","category-receiver","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12802,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12799\/revisions\/12802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}