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Old 19th May 2019, 4:44 pm   #143
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Default Re: More Chinese AM radio kits

The HX-6B is actually a HX207, the ebay listing was a bit misleading. Anyway it seems to work up to a point, the dial frequencies seem to be way out compared to station broadcast frequencies but it's hard to say definitively as the MW reception here is very poor. I like the LED.

X-921 is not so good as I'm also getting squeals and farts out of it. It does pick up some stations at the right frequency but there's echo and Smash-makes-mash alien voice effects and a lot of microphony. Again the poor reception on the very top of GB makes it hard to test effectively.

Next I'll try converting HX207 to LW. I'm thinking of just soldering a cap on either side of the tuning variable capacitor to see what happens but I've got some suitable enamelled thin copper wire I could use to add some windings to the antenna coil.

I've also just ordered another one... HX108-2.
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