For those of us who have no experience with a regenerative
receiver, can you describe how it sounded and how it was operated
so we can understand the challenges of that era? Maybe we can find
a YouTube video of an operational regenerative receiver.
My first station was a Heathkit HR-10 and a Gonset GSB-100
transmitter. That was before my QMN days, though. By the time I
first QNI'd, I was using a Kenwood TS-520 transceiver with a 500Hz
filter.
Tom
On 3/6/2025 11:02 AM, Mike WB8DTT via
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Thanks, Tom
Don's article was great and refreshed my memory
about where 3663 finally came from. It's hard to imagine how
they worked crystal-controlled split frequency full break-in
with the primitive equipment of that era. Finding the other
station on a regenerative receiver?
So moving to a single frequency net was an
astounding idea!
W8JTQ introduced me to QMN in 1969 and when I
visited him in Flint, he said he had started in 1919 with a
spark gap transmitter. But getting a vacuum tube and building
a continuous wave transmitter made him a believer.
Of course we all know that CW is the "ultimate
speech processor" modulation.?
