{"id":1749,"date":"2019-10-12T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/10\/12\/the-bgcd-a-regenerodyne-receiver-built-on-pencil-candy-and-tea-tins-circuit-from-1937-qst\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:06:13","slug":"the-bgcd-a-regenerodyne-receiver-built-on-pencil-candy-and-tea-tins-circuit-from-1937-qst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/10\/12\/the-bgcd-a-regenerodyne-receiver-built-on-pencil-candy-and-tea-tins-circuit-from-1937-qst\/","title":{"rendered":"The BGCD: A Regenerodyne Receiver built on Pencil, Candy, and Tea Tins.  Circuit from 1937 QST"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/W9BRDBGCDReceiver.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"352\" data-original-width=\"760\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/W9BRDBGCDReceiver.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b>David Newkirk recently put up a nice website on ham radio. The page below provides details on the amazing creation pictured above: The BGCD: &#8220;The Byron Goodman &#8212; Clinton DeSoto Regenerodyne.&#8221; It is a beautiful piece of work, made more beautiful by the metal containers used in construction: pencil, candy and tea tins. The circuit is based on a 1937 QST article. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>David&#8217;s site reminded me of the wonderful writing of his father, Rod Newkirk of &#8220;How&#8217;s DX&#8221; fame. More on him in due course.<\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>More on the BGCD here: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b><a href=\"http:\/\/dpnwritings.nfshost.com\/ej\/pictures\/pictures1.htm?fbclid=IwAR2-lmJ8E1kEBT_jsB3Q8UnPaN0vc472dP783ifABK7eSxgpe5M1Pl0N77g\">http:\/\/dpnwritings.nfshost.com\/ej\/pictures\/pictures1.htm?fbclid=IwAR2-lmJ8E1kEBT_jsB3Q8UnPaN0vc472dP783ifABK7eSxgpe5M1Pl0N77g<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Newkirk recently put up a nice website on ham radio. The page below provides details on the amazing creation pictured above: The BGCD: &#8220;The Byron Goodman &#8212; Clinton DeSoto Regenerodyne.&#8221; It is a beautiful piece of work, made more beautiful by the metal containers used in construction: pencil, candy and tea tins. The circuit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/10\/12\/the-bgcd-a-regenerodyne-receiver-built-on-pencil-candy-and-tea-tins-circuit-from-1937-qst\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The BGCD: A Regenerodyne Receiver built on Pencil, Candy, and Tea Tins.  Circuit from 1937 QST&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,31,148,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-old-radio","category-radio-history","category-regens","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1751,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/1751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}