{"id":7534,"date":"2011-03-04T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/03\/04\/the-kings-speech-regen\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:04:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:04:48","slug":"the-kings-speech-regen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/03\/04\/the-kings-speech-regen\/","title":{"rendered":"The King&#8217;s Speech Regen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/regen1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/regen1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580170834443507746\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">In SolderSmoke 131 I talked about this old homebrew receiver. I picked it up at a radio rally in London and almost sold it at a hamfest in Virginia. A fit of UK nostalgia provoked by a screening of &#8220;The King&#8217;s Speech&#8221; caused me to hold onto it. Now it is luring me into two areas that I don&#8217;t really want to get into: high voltage and regeneration. But here we go&#8230; I turn now to our British cousins: What can you tell us about this receiver? 1920s? 30&#8217;s? What tubes should I be looking for? How would they have powered this receiver? Does anyone have a schematic that might describe this device? (Or something close?) <\/span><br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/regen2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/regen2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580172094218636290\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/regen3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/regen3.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580172212008203266\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In SolderSmoke 131 I talked about this old homebrew receiver. I picked it up at a radio rally in London and almost sold it at a hamfest in Virginia. A fit of UK nostalgia provoked by a screening of &#8220;The King&#8217;s Speech&#8221; caused me to hold onto it. Now it is luring me into two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/03\/04\/the-kings-speech-regen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The King&#8217;s Speech Regen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,148,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-old-radio","category-regens","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7534","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=7534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7537,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7534\/revisions\/7537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}