Super-Regeneration One More Time

[Guest guest]

I pulled this from my post on the rifeforum, I thought people

on this group might be interested.

Here I go again. Sorry.

This is a good explanation of Superregeneration.

http://www.amalgamate2000.com/radio-hobbies/radio/Super-regen.htm

Caution there is some kind of add on this page.

Here are a couple quotes that makes it real interesting.

" I tend think of the operation of a super-regenerative receiver as a

regenerative receiver operating in a " sampling mode " Someone ( i.e.

the RC circuit or outboard quench circuit) is tweaking the

regeneration control up and down at an ultrasonic rate "

" The next test was obvious ,how far is it transmitting? Well I put

the maxon microphone on vox mode,on top of the Broadcast radio

speaker, switched everything on, jumped in the car, tuned the ICOM

706 to 49.890 MHz and there it was!! clear as a bell,(also in about 3

other places either side of the carrier due to mixing of the

quenching frequency sidebands "

Now go here.

http://www.eix.co.uk/Articles/Radio/Welcome.htm

Can't give exact quote from this page,but here goes.

The receiver reradiates and acts as a pulsed Rf transmitter.

It creates narrow bursts of RF modulated at the quench repetition

frequency.

Also on this page you will notice exponentil positive

self-oscillations, which may explain on the lab

video the seemingly reversed exponential decay pulses, it would seem

that they are not exponential decay but exponential growth pulses.

The quench frequency is probably where the audio Crane/Beamray MOR's

come from, of course

these are not in the ultrasonic range, but 10x Beamray is. Also from

my other readings

the quench frequency does not have to be ultrasonic it can be in the

audible range.

It would seem that the AZ58 and Beamray devices were trying to

emulate this by AM modulation of a carrier.

How 1604Kc might fit into this not quite sure.perhaps the 1604KC is a

difference frequency between

the quenching frequency sidebands and the main frequency, at a

specific quenching frequency.

The above papers on superregeneration seem to explain the use of the

Kennedy receivers.

It might be prudent, to re-think Rife and Super-Regeneration.

I dont pretend to understand all of this, but the hams/EE's here

should be able to explain this in terms of Rife for the rest of us

Beamray