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VK2RL’s RETRO-STYLE CARDBOARD RADIO

THE RETRO-STYLE CARDBOARD RADIO MAKER: BOB VK2RL This highly educational and quirky project is suitable for a rainy day, and is an ideal way to use up surplus electronic components that may happen to be lying around the workshop. Basically it consists of a TA7642 integrated circuit that is constructed using discrete components – i.e. transistors, resistors […]

40 Metre Direct Conversion Receiver

40 Metre Direct Conversion Receiver

My latest project is a 40 metre band direct conversion receiver. It is based on a circuit gleaned from the internet and built entirely from junk box components. The receiver was built as a prototype because I was uncertain as to how much experimentation was going to be necessary in order to get it going. There were some […]