No, the Ballarat Radio Museum somehow bought an old warehouse ful
Still off topic, I built a one-tube regenerative radio from a kit while in Australia in 1990.
Maybe a dozen or so electrical parts in all, handwound spiderweb coils, etc.
It has outputs for a high-impedance set of headphones, and a matching transformer for 8-ohm headphones. With the "good" Sony headphones, it's actually loud, and with "nothing" to degrade the audio, it has a purity that sounds much like studio monitors.
It shows off how much distortion actually occurs in the typical audio circuits ( and various flavors of AF detection).
When I've plugged it into a good Hi-fi amp, it's hard to believe it's AM.
Was that a kit from Dick Smith Electronics? I saw that at the time and didn't bite, and now I wish I had.
No, the Ballarat Radio Museum somehow bought an old warehouse in Melbourne full of old radio parts, and had put together a kit with a wooden base with a bakelite top, and one Marconi wireless company triode. If Dick Smith ever offered this kit, I didn't see it. It was all pretty much New-Old Stock parts, and when I got home to the US, I rewound the coils again with genuine emerald green 1920's litz wire for the perfect look.
They called it the Unidyne. It will drive a horn speaker OK on a really strong signal.
