{"id":4964,"date":"2018-02-17T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/02\/17\/kd4pbjs-acorn-am-broadcast-band-regen\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:08:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:08:36","slug":"kd4pbjs-acorn-am-broadcast-band-regen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/02\/17\/kd4pbjs-acorn-am-broadcast-band-regen\/","title":{"rendered":"KD4PBJ’s Acorn AM Broadcast Band Regen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is my AM band regen I built during December and early January. <\/b><\/div>\n

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It uses a 955 acorn tube and is a really hot performer! I can pick up dozens of stations with only a 20 ft piece of wire thrown out my shop window and tied to a nearby tree limb 5 ft off the ground. This is from rural Tennessee where we have no local AM\u2019s. <\/b><\/div>\n

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It uses a velvet vernier I bought off eBay back around 1999 or 2000 and had saved for a special project like this. <\/b><\/div>\n

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I\u2019m running filaments off a 6V lantern battery and plates off a type 415 45V battery. <\/b><\/div>\n

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A nice ham\/machinist I met on the Time Nuts list who lives in San Francisco made my insulated shaft couplings. I got the Delrin rod cheap off eBay. He cut them to length, center drilled for 1\/4 inch and drilled each end for 2 setscrews.<\/b><\/div>\n

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From Chris, KD4PBJ: This is my AM band regen I built during December and early January. It uses a 955 acorn tube and is a really hot performer! I can pick up dozens of stations with only a 20 ft piece of wire thrown out my shop window and tied to a nearby tree limb … Continue reading “KD4PBJ’s Acorn AM Broadcast Band Regen”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,148,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regen","category-regens","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964","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=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4970,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions\/4970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}