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Christopher Pinter

As the founder and President of Pinter Electronics Consultants Chris has been instrumental in developing the business from its inception in 2005 to its current status.  He has over 15 years of experience in radio and wireless communication hardware design and product development. Chris graduated from the Okanagan University with a diploma in Electronic Engineering Technology and the British Columbia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics.

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  • in reply to Problemchild

    Yes, I own all that stuff folks

     

    Sorry about the definition of the pictures. The site was designed when all

    we had was dial-up and now I'm too busy repairing circuit boards for lifts.

     

     

     

    It would be interesting to build a receiver from scratch.

     

    I used to do this back in the 1950s, of course with valves in those days.

     

    Something different would be a single valve super-regenerative receiver.

     

    This could tune the FM band and the air band.

     

    I built several using a 955 acorn triode

     

    The super-regens don't mind if its FM or AM and they are very sensitive..

    just a few feet of wire for an aerial.

     

    I just found this site for circuits

     

    http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/norcimradiocontrol/Radio17.htm

     

     

     

    I'm just about to publish the repair of a TF2008 signal generator, although

    not valves I'm afraid, although I did include on my website the repair of a

    marine valve equipment.

     

    Cheers

     

    Allan G3PIY

  • in reply to Former Member

    Thanks I would really like to see what you had in terms of battery powered valve designs like this

    http://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/sputnik_9v_superheterodyne_tube_radio.html

     

    I think the battery ones may be interesting to folk who have avoided  the old valve stuff for fear of been Zapped image !!

  • in reply to Problemchild

    HI john,

     

    this post is for wireless and radio queations.  If you have a radio question for me I will answer it.  I do not know much about battery powered valves.

     

    please repost in a different section of element 14.

  • in reply to Problemchild

    Hi John,

     

    Nice find.

    (Maybe we need to request F&S to move a bit of this thread since we digressed a tiny bit) - but the battery powered valve designs are very interesting, something running from a couple of 6V or 9V batteries would be a fun thing for someone to prototype, as a modern take on a valve radio.

    Otherwise maybe much knowledge is lost as people forget how to use valves. They were a bit before my time, and I don't know much about them, but they are still interesting.

    What would be cool would be to see even a simple low-voltage single-tube oscillator or an amplifier, i.e. to walk before running, just to get people familiarised with how the devices operate.

    I can imagine there were some really impressive radio designs at the time to minimise parts count for example, e.g. the regenerative receivers, etc.

  • in reply to Chris_Pinter

    Hi Chris I see the thread moved a bit how ever we are obviously still on the Radio/Wireless theme.

    I would say that all these I will answer on Topic X,Y,Z themes are prone to this as the RPI and Arduino are too.

    Any way it may be time to open up a "retro-tronics" thread. image