Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Have One ? "Regency TR-1" - Orig Commercial Transistor Radio Date: 24 Aug 2025 05:10:28 GMT Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <1084pn5$dbj6$1@dont-email.me> <1086fo9$pj3r$4@dont-email.me> <009jnlxiik.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <108ac32$1n7i9$1@dont-email.me> <108aeni$1n7i9$11@dont-email.me> <1v0nnlxut7.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <0Z2cnU0pqOBp_zT1nZ2dnZfqn_adnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 6uYGnGo7DF9KyAW6/KPWlgu+b0KjWE5C7hm0vJ/jhXO/tO7CqV Cancel-Lock: sha1:tWqPHTuNrcARPV+XjuzTk1pdz/4= sha256:s2OTMYj6KB/bm9EPT8L4a+ZY7VcV6NgZHGAGc967juk= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:72111 On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:22:10 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: > I built myself, from a kit, a good CB receiver (AM only). Among other > things, I learned that part of the critical stuff is unobtainable. > Specially the transformers and variable caps. A kit solves all that., > but there are no more kits like that one. I built a FM tuner from a kit. I think it was Allied but for some reason Lafayette keeps nagging at me. I still have some air variables and ferrite torids for coils but they were getting difficult to find. Some of the caps came from the radios in junked cars I found in the desert. Nothing in the desert goes away although cars tend to get shot up.