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Regeneration without tickler

Regenerative receivers offer sensitive selective reception to rival a superhet, with far less components. They are cheap and easy to make, good for experimenting. While they started with tube (Brit "valve") designs, many builders like semiconductors instead now, but the early design principles can be borrowed. Ok, superhets may be easier to tune.
Super regens, strictly those gennies with quenching extend into the microwaves.
Not surprising that these receivers continue to interest, even inspire...
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Regeneration without tickler

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The essence of a "Gennie" is positive feedback of RF to a tuned circuit, where it can be tuned once more to improve selectivity and gain.
The feedback is often provided by a coil inductively coupled to the tuned circuit, often just a simple LC tank.

Here is another approach to providing feedback with a capacitor tap. Cool, huh?
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For a full description try: https://techlib.com/electronics/regen.html
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Here's a variant on the ticklerless theme:

Can you see why R1 controls RF gain? This circuit should be able to tune more than the 2:1 of the previous post, and might lend itself to simple single coils for different ranges -or why not a switched tapped coil?
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There's much more about this radio at http://www.electroniq.net/radio-frequen ... eiver.html
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OMG, here's another with a very similar approach. P1 controls regen, similarly to R1 in the previous example. The feedback now comes from a tapped coil.
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A full description is at https://rustybolt.info/wordpress/?p=12120
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