Building a hardwired valve radio is one thing... designing and blowing your own valve is a totally different thing. Thank you Ron for being on the RUclipss and showing us what it takes to make these things.... amazing!
It's good to see that both you and your cat are doing well. This video really blows me away and lends new meaning to the term "home made". BTW I've watched quite a lot of your videos and have enjoyed them all.
That's very cool. I think of the dozens, maybe hundreds of electronic devices I've constructed, never have I hand made all the components. Kudos to you Sir!
Thank you Ron Soyland some young Kids are very interested in learning from the past and how things were done back then. Thank you for Sharing your knowledge and experience with us.
That is truly amazing! A totally handmade radio. It would have been interesting to see the original schematic diagram, to see how they drew the components.
Thanks for sharing your work with us. I am sitting here smiling and speechless. What I just viewed after the video of you making that tube is something very special. Take care sugar stay well !!
Superb result, apart from the very expensive audion valve that's how ordinary folk had to do their wireless, make everything themselves, commercially bought components would be beyond the reach of all the the most wealthy, lot of knowledge and skill went into making that audion, glad you're keeping it alive.
That's a great result.. takes me back to some of the old radios that my Dad had in the early1950s when I was a child...nice to see kitty as well...thanks Ron...
Hi Ron your friend Dave from up North you did an amazing job on that radio you have amazing talent can't wait to see more may God bless you and keep you healthy always your friend Dave😅
I have not watched for a few years, great to see you are still at it. Such a shame you don't live in Lincolnshire UK I would love to learn even 1/2 your skills.
I wonder how long UK will continue to exist with the boatloads of migrants! I watch several UK channels and see people are very upset. We don't get any coverage here in the USA on mainstream TV.
@@adrianrevill7686 Not at the current level. This is termed an invasion. You are literally losing your country. It will be a muslim land in another year or two and then they will take over by sheer voting volume. It already has happened in London.
@@glasslinger Great Britain had so many colonies that it was called the empire on which the sun never sets (because it was always daytime somewhere in its territories). Since they exploited half the world for hundreds of years, perhaps they’re now paying the price for it?
Dear Glasslinger, I am so happy to see your demonstration of turning science mystery into practical fact. Some years ago somebody demonstrated constructing a complete workshop by casting aluminium into 'green sand' molds showing how by hand it was possible to create an engineering grade flat surface for the guide bed of a machine lathe. There was a logical sequence to the building of each piece of workshop equipment, leading to the possibility of constructing the next machining function at high precision! Illustrated books of men building sand molds with wooden geometry tools, casting geared wheels and machine frames of high tonnage weight... This was the very beginning of the industrial revolution from which the first machines then produced thousands of other machines. But the people who created those first big molds are like yourself, true heroes and heroines without whom none of what we apparently take for granted would have been at all possible. Thank you for making electronics and radio REAL. I would like to begin studying for my amateur radio license. You have made it accessible to me by your dedication and genuine skills. Would you consider teaching an online course to pass all your skills to the next generation... Lately electronics has moved away from accessibility into elite black box tech, beyond sustainable, out of reach. Your skills are absolutely sustainable providing for future proof radio and telecomms roots? Thank you for your marvellous demonstrations...Live Long and Prosper!
I don't know who demonstrated it, if it was on video, but was almost certainly based on Dave Gingery's series of books on building a charcoal furnace to melt aluminum (or bronze or brass) and pour sand molds, how to use those castings to create a lathe, how to use the lathe to make a shaper, how to use the shaper and lathe to make a mill, how to use the three to make a drill press, etc, and to increase the precision with a dividing head for gear cutting and cutting screws, et al, etc... When early tech is forgotten no one will understand modern tech, and the movie Idiocracy pretty much predicts what that world will be like.
I'm glad that you are OK. i heard that the Houston area was hit pretty hard, We here in the Austin area were lucky and missed out on the worst of it, this time!
This makes me think that there are so many things I wish I could do. So many things fascinate me. There are not enough hours in the day to learn everything, but thank you for putting this video together. It is fascinating! To know so much about something is very inspiring.!
Wow this was a really interesting one. I watched you make the Audion first then this. Taking things back to the beginnings of radio is fascinating. I would like to try my hand at some earlier receivers myself. I'm getting tires of fixing up 40's & 50's radios and this seems like an interesting direction to go.
As someone who's all about pioneering technology, I don't quite know why I really like old stuff like this and old techniques. Is it simplicity? Am I reincarnated? Idk
Nice restoration! I'm just wondering if any custom PCBs and 3DP/CNC'd part may help for future work? If so, we'd like to support free services (PCBWay zoey)
Hi Zoey: I just want to say thanks to PCBWay for the support and services you provide to the maker space and the products you provide at affordable prices. I believe it helps the hobbyist to gain access to something that was previously out of reach for a lot of us.👌👍👍
Absolutely stunning work. Good job! Love to see that hand built variable condenser. And to build your own capacitors and resistors! Wow. Haven't seen the audion vid but surely is as impressive. Excellent.
Nice!! I'm building one radio like that with the home made triodes. This video will be veeery helpful. 1 valve radio would be nice, like the Reflex receiver. And the cat is lovely, by the way
"Unbelievable" I hear myself say over and over when I watch what you do. But I believe it after seeing some of your videos, all the while becoming more inspired. Although it may be more grounded for me to hear you speak of something you cannot do. I have come to believe, if you had enough time and materials, you could create any modern CPU out of only discrete components.
Quite amazing. The most DIY radio I have ever seen. You should rent that out to movie companies as a period piece prop. Reminds me of the radio set the Norwegian spy had in Sink The Bismark.......before the Nazis burst in and machine gunned him to death.🤧
IIn the days (like 1912) when EVERYTHING had to be made by hand by hobbyists, how did they know when their homebrew part had achieved 2Meg Ohms or 2200 pF? What did they use for testing or checking?
There were books with instructions how to make parts, simple formulas, etc. There wasn't need also for high accuracy of resistors and capacitors in such radios as this.
I'm a little late to the party Glasslinger but just want to say that is one impressive build! P.S. I'd love to see you do a rebuild on that power supply as I was thinking iI could use a variable, multi-output all in one power supply for testing vacuum tube circuits to substitute for a crate full of multi-tap transformers. Anyhoo good health and stay safe. Mike
@JaneChristensen. sure there are, but his unit doesn't transmit, and even if it did the power that it uses might get a signal next door.. I was talking about commercial radio.. HAM in the UK uses 420-450MHz AM commercial is up in the 535 - 1705 MHz range..
nice project , does the humidity affect that 2Mohm resistor u can coat it with resin or wax , u can make the variable capacitor with half circle shape instead of square plat for more linearity . I'm happy cause they still maintain high power AM radio for us to experiment radio reception , just imagine how many tubes u need to recive DAB radio :-).
Ron, you may not be happy with the PSU but it looks very impressive. Lovely set you built all those years ago very interesting component construction do you remember your first Crystal Set ?. . Best
The only way this could be more gloriously Heath Robinson is... If you were to build a model steam engin to gererate the B+, and a flame-triode for the amplifier(That way you don't need a heater filement). Then you'd have what might be the first ever steam powered radio.
Would be interested to know how th ethermionic tube is made and what vacuum pump do we need? In a 1924 'mag' they describe a pump with no moving parts but requires 4 to 5 lbs of mercury!
Hello Sir, nice radio. Sir i need a guidance and suggestion with respect to my Murphy TA224 Tube Radio. 0.05mf wax capacitor for the tone corrector, the same PF is not available in India. So what is the alternative available for such capacitor. Thank You
You can make non standard capacitor values by wiring them in series/parallel, Google " capacitors in series and parallel" it would help if you can get a cheap LCR tester.
Amazing! i've built many one tube radio kits but I could never get one to make a sound. idk if they just don't work or they don't go loud enough for me to hear them.
Building a hardwired valve radio is one thing... designing and blowing your own valve is a totally different thing.
Thank you Ron for being on the RUclipss and showing us what it takes to make these things.... amazing!
taking the next level to the next level
Lucky America still having AM radio stations. Lucky to see Supervisor-Kitty who I was missing in last video 🙂
It's good to see that both you and your cat are doing well. This video really blows me away and lends new meaning to the term "home made". BTW I've watched quite a lot of your videos and have enjoyed them all.
That's very cool. I think of the dozens, maybe hundreds of electronic devices I've constructed, never have I hand made all the components. Kudos to you Sir!
FN - Not "Sir" but "Madam" please.
Your expertise on this old technology is great! I am a 73 year old electronic tech, I really like your videos!
Thank you Ron Soyland some young Kids are very interested in learning from the past and how things were done back then. Thank you for Sharing your knowledge and experience with us.
That is truly amazing! A totally handmade radio. It would have been interesting to see the original schematic diagram, to see how they drew the components.
You are such an amazing person. Thank you for sharing with us.
Amazing radio a true home made. Thankyou for sharing.
Genius level of simplicity, built from the grounds up :)
One of the last people able to produce old tubes. Great seeing it in action. Thank you for another amazing video.
He mentioned at some point "Tyne - Saga of the vacuum tube" Great book I must say.
Thanks for sharing your work with us. I am sitting here smiling and speechless. What I just viewed after the video of you making that tube is something very special. Take care sugar stay well !!
Not exactly HIFI but brilliant work to emulate old tech Ron, please keep making this stuff for historical record making
Superb result, apart from the very expensive audion valve that's how ordinary folk had to do their wireless, make everything themselves, commercially bought components would be beyond the reach of all the the most wealthy, lot of knowledge and skill went into making that audion, glad you're keeping it alive.
What a fantastic set Ron.👌
Wonderfull... i like this radio... very nice...
That's a great result.. takes me back to some of the old radios that my Dad had in the early1950s when I was a child...nice to see kitty as well...thanks Ron...
You are an Incredibly skilled person that I am very happy to learn from.
Hi Ron your friend Dave from up North you did an amazing job on that radio you have amazing talent can't wait to see more may God bless you and keep you healthy always your friend Dave😅
glad to see you back...worried how you had fared as the storm hit the hieghts rather badly..
Wow, you are so talented; nice job. :)
Thanks for bringing a little history back to life ! ❤
Like the old saying goes, don't breathe on it , but seriously those hand made components are inspiring.
I have not watched for a few years, great to see you are still at it. Such a shame you don't live in Lincolnshire UK I would love to learn even 1/2 your skills.
I wonder how long UK will continue to exist with the boatloads of migrants! I watch several UK channels and see people are very upset. We don't get any coverage here in the USA on mainstream TV.
@@glasslinger UK is a nation of immigrants, it has been happening for thousands of years, those complaining should look at their own ancestry.
@@adrianrevill7686 Not at the current level. This is termed an invasion. You are literally losing your country. It will be a muslim land in another year or two and then they will take over by sheer voting volume. It already has happened in London.
@@glasslinger Great Britain had so many colonies that it was called the empire on which the sun never sets (because it was always daytime somewhere in its territories). Since they exploited half the world for hundreds of years, perhaps they’re now paying the price for it?
Dear Glasslinger, I am so happy to see your demonstration of turning science mystery into practical fact. Some years ago somebody demonstrated constructing a complete workshop by casting aluminium into 'green sand' molds showing how by hand it was possible to create an engineering grade flat surface for the guide bed of a machine lathe. There was a logical sequence to the building of each piece of workshop equipment, leading to the possibility of constructing the next machining function at high precision! Illustrated books of men building sand molds with wooden geometry tools, casting geared wheels and machine frames of high tonnage weight... This was the very beginning of the industrial revolution from which the first machines then produced thousands of other machines. But the people who created those first big molds are like yourself, true heroes and heroines without whom none of what we apparently take for granted would have been at all possible. Thank you for making electronics and radio REAL. I would like to begin studying for my amateur radio license. You have made it accessible to me by your dedication and genuine skills. Would you consider teaching an online course to pass all your skills to the next generation... Lately electronics has moved away from accessibility into elite black box tech, beyond sustainable, out of reach. Your skills are absolutely sustainable providing for future proof radio and telecomms roots? Thank you for your marvellous demonstrations...Live Long and Prosper!
I don't know who demonstrated it, if it was on video, but was almost certainly based on Dave Gingery's series of books on building a charcoal furnace to melt aluminum (or bronze or brass) and pour sand molds, how to use those castings to create a lathe, how to use the lathe to make a shaper, how to use the shaper and lathe to make a mill, how to use the three to make a drill press, etc, and to increase the precision with a dividing head for gear cutting and cutting screws, et al, etc...
When early tech is forgotten no one will understand modern tech, and the movie Idiocracy pretty much predicts what that world will be like.
A complete success, the tube works very well. A nice look back at the beginnings of tube technology and its first application in radio technology.
I'm glad that you are OK. i heard that the Houston area was hit pretty hard, We here in the Austin area were lucky and missed out on the worst of it, this time!
Beautiful radio and explanation , thank you .
Love your ingenuity, and well explained.
This makes me think that there are so many things I wish I could do. So many things fascinate me. There are not enough hours in the day to learn everything, but thank you for putting this video together. It is fascinating! To know so much about something is very inspiring.!
I see some other impressive videos on YT and think the exact same thing! :)
Remarkable! Well done! 100% home made. Unreal that you made all your own components.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing the demo! Was eager to see how well the tube worked
สวัสดีครับ ผมกดติดตามช่องของคุณ ในปีนี้ ผมรู้สึกได้ว่า คุณมีความชำนาญเก่งในเรื่อง วิทยุหลอดแบบโบราณ ผมว่าคุณอธิบายในแต่ละคลิปVDOได้ละเอียดดีมาก แต่เสียดาย ผมพูดภาษาอังฤกษไม่ได้ เลยฟังไม่รู้เรื่อง ที่คุณพูดสื่อสารออกมา แต่ผมเข้าใจว่าคุณเก่งเรื่องวิทยุมากมาย ผมอยู่ประเทศไทยครับ
ถึงผมพูดภาษาอังกฤษไม่ได้ ฟังไม่ออก แต่ผมก็ได้เข้าดูภาพ VDO เท่านั้น เพราะใจผมชอบวิทยุ อยากเรียนรู้ซ่อมวทยุได้เหมือนคุณ จากFC ที่ประเทศไทยครับ
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
ดีที่คุณสนใจวิทยุเก่า หากคุณต้องการแปลบางสิ่ง Google translate เป็นตัวเลือกที่ดี ตอนนี้ฉันก็ใช้มันเช่นกัน คำทักทายจากเนเธอร์แลนด์
Wow this was a really interesting one. I watched you make the Audion first then this. Taking things back to the beginnings of radio is fascinating. I would like to try my hand at some earlier receivers myself. I'm getting tires of fixing up 40's & 50's radios and this seems like an interesting direction to go.
You never cease to amaze!
'Homebuilt Wireless Components' Radio Press Series no.16, an interesting book from 1923, same type of DIY components as this.
As someone who's all about pioneering technology, I don't quite know why I really like old stuff like this and old techniques. Is it simplicity? Am I reincarnated? Idk
Nice setup, I like the build of the tuning capacitor.
No words , thank you ron greetings from portugal
Nice restoration! I'm just wondering if any custom PCBs and 3DP/CNC'd part may help for future work? If so, we'd like to support free services (PCBWay zoey)
Hi Zoey: I just want to say thanks to PCBWay for the support and services you provide to the maker space and the products you provide at affordable prices. I believe it helps the hobbyist to gain access to something that was previously out of reach for a lot of us.👌👍👍
Love the video!
Marvelous! I love builds like that, I have built some one tube regenerative radios, but nothing beats a radio with a homemade triode.
That's such a cool radio. Nice work building it.
beautiful video, you are a great technician and a great person
That is so cool, love it. 👍
a beautiful job indeed, congratulations from Italy, expecially for the amazing tube
Great radio project, thanks from England
Absolutely stunning work. Good job! Love to see that hand built variable condenser. And to build your own capacitors and resistors! Wow. Haven't seen the audion vid but surely is as impressive. Excellent.
It's amazing what they we able to do so long ago. Human ingenuity. 73's!📻
Welcome back my friend? I wish i was as smart as you are back when i was 30 years old!
sincerely thank you for your effort deployed in the electronic field I have always followed your video for a long time.// MOROCCO //
Good to see the supervisor over-seeing the work. Missed her in the vacuum tube video last week.
Fantastic work on that radio! To believe that's enough to pick up broadcasts.
Yes. It was Armstrong that figured out what the Audion was capable of doing.
Nice!! I'm building one radio like that with the home made triodes. This video will be veeery helpful. 1 valve radio would be nice, like the Reflex receiver.
And the cat is lovely, by the way
Fabulous, thank you for sharing.
This is so cool! Thank you for sharing!
"Unbelievable" I hear myself say over and over when I watch what you do. But I believe it after seeing some of your videos, all the while becoming more inspired. Although it may be more grounded for me to hear you speak of something you cannot do. I have come to believe, if you had enough time and materials, you could create any modern CPU out of only discrete components.
Amazing...including the cat! 😻
I love how the kitty sits on the chair and talks to you!
Quite amazing. The most DIY radio I have ever seen.
You should rent that out to movie companies as a period piece prop.
Reminds me of the radio set the Norwegian spy had in Sink The Bismark.......before the Nazis burst in and machine gunned him to death.🤧
Outstanding! So neat. Would sure like to learn more of this!
IIn the days (like 1912) when EVERYTHING had to be made by hand by hobbyists, how did they know when their homebrew part had achieved 2Meg Ohms or 2200 pF? What did they use for testing or checking?
There were books with instructions how to make parts, simple formulas, etc. There wasn't need also for high accuracy of resistors and capacitors in such radios as this.
They used their HP 8 digit Digital VOM! What else! :)
with large amounts of adjustibility tolerances can be low and still work
I'm a little late to the party Glasslinger but just want to say that is one impressive build! P.S. I'd love to see you do a rebuild on that power supply as I was thinking iI could use a variable, multi-output all in one power supply for testing vacuum tube circuits to substitute for a crate full of multi-tap transformers. Anyhoo good health and stay safe. Mike
My jaw just dropped. Homage to the Master Craftsman!
Aye!
I have recreated the early crystal sets from several of the books I have collected. Now I have to do this set!
Peace
How good is that, a hobby taken to its max.. if only there was something decent to listen to..A.M in the uk is dead.
Leider hier in Deutschland auch kein AM mehr..schade.
@JaneChristensen. sure there are, but his unit doesn't transmit, and even if it did the power that it uses might get a signal next door.. I was talking about commercial radio.. HAM in the UK uses 420-450MHz AM commercial is up in the 535 - 1705 MHz range..
Beautiful. I would love to get an audion (reproduction or otherwise). Great work.
This is possible. I am trying to figure how to email someone on YT. They don't make it easy!
nice project , does the humidity affect that 2Mohm resistor u can coat it with resin or wax , u can make the variable capacitor with half circle shape instead of square plat for more linearity . I'm happy cause they still maintain high power AM radio for us to experiment radio reception , just imagine how many tubes u need to recive DAB radio :-).
Welcome back
Would love to see you do the same thing but with an amplifier with your homemade tube's that would be fun to see love what you have done 👍
Ron, you may not be happy with the PSU but it looks very impressive. Lovely set you built all those years ago very interesting component construction do you remember your first Crystal Set ?. . Best
Very nice and informative
I thought the getter was only for outgassing of the tube internals and not micro leaks
If you would connect the outer foil of your tuning capacitor to the lower impedance side of your circuit,
reception would be twice as good. );
The only way this could be more gloriously Heath Robinson is... If you were to build a model steam engin to gererate the B+, and a flame-triode for the amplifier(That way you don't need a heater filement). Then you'd have what might be the first ever steam powered radio.
That is amazing.
How Very Peaceful, "We Should Just Use That To Go To Sleep"
Oh! You listen the sounds that was sent form 1912! 🤣🤣😂😂😂
Very nice, what kind of wire is used for connecting and for the coils. I have some cloth insulation wire from 1929.
Now then, time to make either a triode or a tetrode audio amplifier?
I live in Los Angeles. If I touch the input of an amplifier i hear KNX news radio !!
Hi Ron, at that time they should be able to make a local oscillator using one tube so that will make it more selective
Oh well, an anachronism won't hurt anything! I didn't have any of the hard rubber that was used back that far!
VERY COOL ! YOU DID A GREAT JOB MAKING THAT RADIO!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Would be interested to know how th ethermionic tube is made and what vacuum pump do we need? In a 1924 'mag' they describe a pump with no moving parts but requires 4 to 5 lbs of mercury!
Ohh yeah! Glaslinger, esse é um lindo Radio
Oh thanks friend glaslinger
Nicely done 👍🏻
Hello Sir, nice radio. Sir i need a guidance and suggestion with respect to my Murphy TA224 Tube Radio. 0.05mf wax capacitor for the tone corrector, the same PF is not available in India. So what is the alternative available for such capacitor.
Thank You
You can make non standard capacitor values by wiring them in series/parallel, Google " capacitors in series and parallel" it would help if you can get a cheap LCR tester.
A .047 should work just as well.
Capacitors had huge tolerances back then so they had to design the circuits to tolerate these...
I wonder if there was much to listen to in 1912.......
Just the Titanic's distress calls...
An excellent video an amazing job,
This was super cool!
Great work! I think that rotating coil variable inductor is called a variometer also what kind of antenna did you use for this? amazing!
Glasslinger il genio e il mago delle Radio a Valvole !!
Oh yeah! Glaslinger, esse é um belo radio, ah sim eu também gostei de ver a 🐱 oncinha
You should do maker space classes
The Dallas Makerspace would love to have Ron demo his radios.
love it, made me research the development of the tube
Amazing! i've built many one tube radio kits but I could never get one to make a sound. idk if they just don't work or they don't go loud enough for me to hear them.
It's crazy to think how simple that radio is There's hardly any components at all🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Hi Ron! Nice radio!