TESTING A 1912 STYLE RADIO

[@Xotzil-Privat]

Lucky America still having AM radio stations. Lucky to see Supervisor-Kitty who I was missing in last video 🙂

[@mayshack]

When someone says "homemade radio" usually they just mean they assembled a radio. This reminds me of the Sagan quote, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe."

[@dennis8196]

Sometimes. Some people still make, that's why so many makerspaces have been opening over the last decade. There are 5 within an hour's drive from me that I know of and 2 on the coast where I often go on holiday 20 minutes drive drive away. I am planning to make a large variable capacitor for a tunable magnet antenna design I have, but I need to source suitable materials for my design, something I am having difficulty doing locally. I'd love to be able to do what Glasslinger does, making valves looks fun.

[@kishascape]

That’s a pretentious neckbeard quote

[@fretlessfender]

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 KZbins and showing us what it takes to make these things.... amazing!

[@CATech1138]

taking the next level to the next level

[@KeritechElectronics]

Genius level of simplicity, built from the grounds up :)

[@TimHollingworth]

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.

[@apexmcboob5161]

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!

[@sciencefollower]

FN - Not "Sir" but "Madam" please.

[@jonathanhughes380]

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.

[@hazevthewolf178]

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.

[@migsvensurfing6310]

You are such an amazing person. Thank you for sharing with us.

[@johnwynne-qx6br]

Amazing radio a true home made. Thankyou for sharing.

[@alanwheeler3309]

Your expertise on this old technology is great! I am a 73 year old electronic tech, I really like your videos!

[@jamied2108]

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 !!

[@edmaster3147]

One of the last people able to produce old tubes. Great seeing it in action. Thank you for another amazing video.

[@LostDeadSoul]

He mentioned at some point "Tyne - Saga of the vacuum tube" Great book I must say.

[@Robb403]

You are an Incredibly skilled person that I am very happy to learn from.

[@nudebaboon4874]

What a fantastic set Ron.👌

[@user-Atamigaputer]

Not exactly HIFI but brilliant work to emulate old tech Ron, please keep making this stuff for historical record making

[@401ksolar]

Like the old saying goes, don't breathe on it , but seriously those hand made components are inspiring.

[@aggie46]

glad to see you back...worried how you had fared as the storm hit the hieghts rather badly..

[@MrCount44201]

Wow, you are so talented; nice job. :)

[@chuck0mx]

Wonderfull... i like this radio... very nice...

[@joefish6091]

'Homebuilt Wireless Components' Radio Press Series no.16, an interesting book from 1923, same type of DIY components as this.

[@TheStuffMade]

That is so cool, love it. 👍

[@monteceitomoocher]

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.

[@davidstacy8314]

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😅

[@davidportch8837]

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...

[@michaellichter4091]

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.

[@Me11oIngenuity]

Love the video!

[@pat3034]

You never cease to amaze!

[@yardleybottles6025]

My jaw just dropped. Homage to the Master Craftsman!

[@ThePeaceableKingdom]

Aye!

[@tinygriffy]

Thanks for bringing a little history back to life ! ❤

[@UDX-340]

Beautiful radio and explanation , thank you .

[@thakyou5005]

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

[@suzakule]

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!

[@richardsmith7783]

Welcome back my friend? I wish i was as smart as you are back when i was 30 years old!

[@stanleygerrick6053]

It's amazing what they we able to do so long ago. Human ingenuity. 73's!📻

[@tueiron]

Love your ingenuity, and well explained.

[@Monaco-BuilditFixitDriveitEver]

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.!

[@glasslinger]

I see some other impressive videos on YT and think the exact same thing! :)

[@theriverlab]

beautiful video, you are a great technician and a great person

[@JaneChristensen.]

That's engineer, and after having watched many videos now, I agree, amazing person!

[@derstrom8]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing the demo! Was eager to see how well the tube worked

[@waxore1142]

Remarkable! Well done! 100% home made. Unreal that you made all your own components.

[@ThePeaceableKingdom]

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.

[@EzThomas.]

Amazing...including the cat! 😻

[@m00iwi00m]

Oh! You listen the sounds that was sent form 1912! 🤣🤣😂😂😂

[@frankowalker4662]

That's such a cool radio. Nice work building it.

[@hugovale8070]

No words , thank you ron greetings from portugal

[@TheCubbyman61]

Marvelous! I love builds like that, I have built some one tube regenerative radios, but nothing beats a radio with a homemade triode.

[@oddo710]

Yes. It was Armstrong that figured out what the Audion was capable of doing.

[@noyjirat1903]

สวัสดีครับ ผมกดติดตามช่องของคุณ ในปีนี้ ผมรู้สึกได้ว่า คุณมีความชำนาญเก่งในเรื่อง วิทยุหลอดแบบโบราณ ผมว่าคุณอธิบายในแต่ละคลิปVDOได้ละเอียดดีมาก แต่เสียดาย ผมพูดภาษาอังฤกษไม่ได้ เลยฟังไม่รู้เรื่อง ที่คุณพูดสื่อสารออกมา แต่ผมเข้าใจว่าคุณเก่งเรื่องวิทยุมากมาย ผมอยู่ประเทศไทยครับ ถึงผมพูดภาษาอังกฤษไม่ได้ ฟังไม่ออก แต่ผมก็ได้เข้าดูภาพ VDO เท่านั้น เพราะใจผมชอบวิทยุ อยากเรียนรู้ซ่อมวทยุได้เหมือนคุณ จากFC ที่ประเทศไทยครับ

[@shaggydogg630]

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

[@20kilovolt]

ดีที่คุณสนใจวิทยุเก่า หากคุณต้องการแปลบางสิ่ง Google translate เป็นตัวเลือกที่ดี ตอนนี้ฉันก็ใช้มันเช่นกัน คำทักทายจากเนเธอร์แลนด์

[@alexandracrawford800]

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!

[@ThePeaceableKingdom]

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.

[@clyde1406]

Outstanding! So neat. Would sure like to learn more of this!

[@atmylab]

Fabulous, thank you for sharing.

[@timhull8664]

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.

[@wechselrichterschaltungen]

Leider hier in Deutschland auch kein AM mehr..schade.

[@timhull8664]

@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..

[@JaneChristensen.]

​@@timhull8664 At night, with a very simple home made AM receiver, I can occasionally receive music, and sometimes sermons being broadcast by amateur operators thousands of km's away! You don't have to be able to transmit to hear these signals obviously, but it's still fun trying to find these pirate broadcasts.

[@catherineladd5300]

Good to see the supervisor over-seeing the work. Missed her in the vacuum tube video last week.

[@Radio478]

Great radio project, thanks from England

[@Donno308]

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.

[@jeffhaskins5236]

This is so cool! Thank you for sharing!

[@andygoldensixties4201]

a beautiful job indeed, congratulations from Italy, expecially for the amazing tube

[@user-ff3qn1ky8g]

sincerely thank you for your effort deployed in the electronic field I have always followed your video for a long time.// MOROCCO //

[@fibrodad1354]

Welcome back

[@Movieman1965]

Fantastic work on that radio! To believe that's enough to pick up broadcasts.

[@rivards1]

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?

[@yuriivanov12]

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.

[@glasslinger]

They used their HP 8 digit Digital VOM! What else! :)

[@CATech1138]

with large amounts of adjustibility tolerances can be low and still work

[@PilotInCommand777]

I love how the kitty sits on the chair and talks to you!

[@tomweickmann6414]

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.🤧

[@labiadh_chokri]

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 :-).

[@pjosephlthewonder5082]

I have recreated the early crystal sets from several of the books I have collected. Now I have to do this set! Peace

[@NoCurtain]

"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.

[@bigguyprepper]

This was super cool!

[@kenw.1112]

VERY COOL ! YOU DID A GREAT JOB MAKING THAT RADIO!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@va3ngc]

Beautiful. I would love to get an audion (reproduction or otherwise). Great work.

[@glasslinger]

This is possible. I am trying to figure how to email someone on YT. They don't make it easy!

[@MrDuffman83]

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

[@guitarsid]

Very nice, what kind of wire is used for connecting and for the coils. I have some cloth insulation wire from 1929.

[@k8byp]

look at the rotatable link coupled transformer!

[@wolfgangrichter6088]

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. );

[@krz8888888]

I thought the getter was only for outgassing of the tube internals and not micro leaks

[@russedmonds227]

Great work! I think that rotating coil variable inductor is called a variometer also what kind of antenna did you use for this? amazing!

[@redneckways1933]

That is amazing.

[@glasslinger]

Oh well, an anachronism won't hurt anything! I didn't have any of the hard rubber that was used back that far!

[@user-rr4rs3nt7y]

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.

[@coolbluelights]

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.

[@robtitheridge9708]

An excellent video an amazing job,

[@ricardosalesdemello4130]

Ohh yeah! Glaslinger, esse é um lindo Radio

[@ricardosalesdemello4130]

Oh thanks friend glaslinger

[@brendanbarker2095]

love it, made me research the development of the tube

[@k8byp]

congrats, something there Ive never seen, pencil lead resistor! Outstanding! When the Great Tech Reset happens, and semiconductors cant be made, this will be the technology.

[@jozefbubez6116]

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!

[@WOFFY-qc9te]

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

[@newtronix]

Superb!

[@kid_missive]

So cool!!!

[@Baa5280]

I live in Los Angeles. If I touch the input of an amplifier i hear KNX news radio !!

[@shamrockisland]

Love it.

[@sonofeloah]

Now then, time to make either a triode or a tetrode audio amplifier?

[@brianbloom1799]

Thats amazing rod, If we Have a war, Everyone better make friends with you, Cause you can throw parts together to hear whats going on, in the World

[@moristo]

Hi Ron, at that time they should be able to make a local oscillator using one tube so that will make it more selective

[@DeadKoby]

I wonder if there was much to listen to in 1912.......

[@Dan40049]

Just the Titanic's distress calls...

[@user-kj1od5ed7p]

Wow very cool thank you for the video

[@jeffreyyoung4104]

Hi Ron! Nice radio!

[@jeffjordan3806]

Amazing !

[@jamest409]

Aww rescue kitty TNR good for you thank you!

[@1diotwithideas]

You should do maker space classes

[@KenPurcell]

The Dallas Makerspace would love to have Ron demo his radios.

[@dennisqwertyuiop]

great work

[@md10591]

what is the name of your beautiful cat ??