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Old 12th Apr 2007, 9:09 am   #1
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Smile homebrew hifi-stereo FM valve tuner

Hi, in 1992 I build this FM-tuner. I found it last time at my parents home.
I took some photos made for you and a scan of the schematic.
Maybe it is of interest for those who wants to make one.

Kind regards,
Darius
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Old 12th Apr 2007, 9:27 am   #2
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additional pics...

Schematics will follow, I have problems with the upload.

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Old 12th Apr 2007, 10:31 am   #3
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Default Re: homebrew hifi-stereo FM valve tuner

Darius,

That's amazing, it must have taken many, many hours to design and build

I like the CRT display. What was the commercial tuner that used a similar arrangement? A Marantz, maybe? I'm sure I have an article about it in a back issue of HiFi World somewhere.

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Old 12th Apr 2007, 11:04 am   #4
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Very nice job Darius. How old were you when you made it?

Why did you decide to label the front panel in English not German?

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Old 12th Apr 2007, 11:17 am   #5
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How old were you when you made it?
1992-1966=~26
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Old 12th Apr 2007, 11:23 am   #6
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At least that makes me feel a bit less inadequate - I had a horrible feeling Darius would say he'd made it when he was about 12, an age at which I was struggling to make one transistor MW radios work (mind you I was doing no better at 26)

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Old 12th Apr 2007, 11:24 am   #7
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I think my best efforts were when I was a teenager (lots of enthusiasm and time). It's all been downhill from there

Was the design entirely your own work, Darius?

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Old 12th Apr 2007, 11:52 am   #8
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Very nice job Darius. How old were you when you made it?

Why did you decide to label the front panel in English not German?

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Hi Paul,
as a radio amateur I thaught english labeling
is international and modern. (I still think this, but people here often don't.)

Hi Nick,
yes the design is my work.
I have seen this Stereoscope first at the Langenberg FM transmitter (WDR)
and I wanted to have one.
I am happy to show you the
schematic here if I can.
I think it is interesting and has some outstanding developments.
PM me your email and I can mail it to you.

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Old 12th Apr 2007, 7:39 pm   #9
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Good evening,
attached the schematics.

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attached the schematics.

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Old 13th Apr 2007, 8:25 pm   #11
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Hi Darius, a very interesting circuit, as a technophile I like the 'scope. It would look good using the 1BP1 25mm tube.
Were the coils home made or commercial? Can you supply details please?

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Hi Darius, a very interesting circuit, as a technophile I like the 'scope. It would look good using the 1BP1 25mm tube.
Were the coils home made or commercial? Can you supply details please?

Best regards, Ed
Hi Ed,
I bought the DN7-2 and the transformers T1 T2 at a ham flee marked
several years before I build the tuner.
(This ham flee marked is every early december in Dortmund Westfalenhalle.)
The RF- coils are all home made, the coils in the stereo decoder are
commercial ferrite coils.
The 38KHz filter transformer (plate E(C)F) is a small
line frequency transformer.

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Hi, in 1992 I build this FM-tuner. I found it last time at my parents home.
I took some photos made for you and a scan of the schematic.
Maybe it is of interest for those who wants to make one.

Kind regards,
Darius
German readers look here:
http://ukw-projekt.blogspot.com/2007...ukw-tuner.html
thanks,
Darius
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