Repairing radios was easier when radios were simple. There were typically two strategies. You could use a signal tracer (an amplifier) to listen at the volume control. If you heard something, the ...

Since the beginning of radio service shops in the late 1920s, signal tracers have been an integral part of the service tools used for repairing radios, televisions, amplifiers, and other electronic ...

Repairing radios was easier when radios were simple. There were typically two strategies. You could use a signal tracer (an amplifier) to listen at the volume control. If you heard something, the ...

The main part of this circuit is the LM386 amplifier chip. It also uses a transistor input to buffer the input signal and provide extra gain for the LM386. The little unit has helped me out on ...

I don’t have a clue about what is a Philco Dynamic Tester or what it did back in 1946. Quite frankly, I don’t care. I want to believe it was used to carry the navigational computers inside ...