{"id":3870,"date":"2011-07-26T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/26\/regens-a-complex-relationship-aa7ees-wbr\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:12:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:12:58","slug":"regens-a-complex-relationship-aa7ees-wbr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/26\/regens-a-complex-relationship-aa7ees-wbr\/","title":{"rendered":"Regens: A Complex Relationship; AA7EE’s WBR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bill – <\/span><\/div>\n
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I’ve been following your blog for a while now and am moved to let you know of my recent experience with regens, a subject that I know is dear to your heart or perhaps, more accurately, the basis of a complex relationship!<\/span><\/div>\n
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Anyway, the last time I built and owned a regen was as a teenager in the UK in the late 1970’s when I had a one-tube HAC Model DX one tube regen.<\/a> Recently I’ve been looking for a fairly simple receiver to build that would<\/span><\/div>\n
receive CW and SSB <\/span>on 40M, as well as AM. I’m developing an interest in AM on 40, a rather impractical mode in some ways, but one that I have an attachment to. A regen seemed an obvious choice, so after seeing the<\/span><\/div>\n
reprint in “More QRP Power” <\/span>of the QST article <\/span>describing N1BYT’s WBR regen, I decided to have a go at it.<\/span><\/div>\n
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In short, I’m so glad this was the first regen of my adult life. It is sensitive, suffers no hand-capacitance effects, has very little radiation from the antenna port due to the oscillator tank circuit being in a Wheatstone Bridge arrangement,<\/span><\/div>\n
no microphony and to make things even better, is very stable in frequency. I can set it to a net or long-winded CW QSO and it stays there with no easily discernible drift (after a short warm-up period of course).<\/span><\/div>\n
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I know you’re probably aware of this receiver, but have you tried building one? I think you’d be pleasantly surprised.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The blog post about my version of this great little receiver is here:<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span><\/a>http:\/\/aa7ee.wordpress.com\/2011\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/a>http:\/\/aa7ee.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/24\/the-wbr-a-simple-high-performance-regen-receiver-for-40m-by-n1byt\/<\/a><\/span>07\/24\/the-wbr-a-simple-high-performance-regen-receiver-for-40m-by-n1byt\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Yours,<\/span><\/div>\n
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Dave Richards<\/span><\/div>\n
AA7EE<\/span><\/div>\n

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Bill – I’ve been following your blog for a while now and am moved to let you know of my recent experience with regens, a subject that I know is dear to your heart or perhaps, more accurately, the basis of a complex relationship! Anyway, the last time I built and owned a regen was … Continue reading “Regens: A Complex Relationship; AA7EE’s WBR”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regens","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870","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=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3872,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions\/3872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}