{"id":12846,"date":"2018-03-27T11:04:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T18:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12846"},"modified":"2018-03-27T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T18:04:48","slug":"2018-03-26-reflex-receiver-2-transistor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12846","title":{"rendered":"2018-03-26 Reflex Receiver, 2 Transistor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For FB group Building Transistor Radios<\/p>\n<p>Darrell Darby  (Schematic below)<br \/>\nWhat amazes me is the collector load resistor for the earphone stage is 100k. That&#8217;s more than ten times higher than usual, and it&#8217;s okay because the crystal earplug is very sensitive.<\/p>\n<p>I would squeeze a bit more gain out of it by removing the 220k and changing the 1 meg to a 4.7 Meg or 10 Meg. The 2N4401 is a general purpose NPN, you can use a BC547, PN2222A or 2N3904.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/FB_IMG_1522173589589.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12845 size-full\" width=\"767\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/FB_IMG_1522173589589.jpg 767w, https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/FB_IMG_1522173589589-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For FB group Building Transistor Radios Darrell Darby (Schematic below) What amazes me is the collector load resistor for the earphone stage is 100k. That&#8217;s more than ten times higher than usual, and it&#8217;s okay because the crystal earplug is very sensitive. I would squeeze a bit more gain out of it by removing the<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12846\"> <\/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":[262,342,343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-receiver","category-reflex","category-regen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846","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=12846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12847,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846\/revisions\/12847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}