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Davey Long-And Medium-Wave Coil With Aerial and Reaction Windings

This document summarizes a Davey long- and medium-wave coil with aerial and reaction windings. The coil was handmade for the author and is about 4 inches high and 2 3/4 inches in diameter. It has windings for aerial, medium-wave, long-wave and reaction. The document also includes circuit diagrams from 1961 issues of Boy's Own Paper showing how to incorporate the coil into crystal and one-valve receiver circuits, along with corrections to errors in the original diagrams.

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Davey Long-And Medium-Wave Coil With Aerial and Reaction Windings

This document summarizes a Davey long- and medium-wave coil with aerial and reaction windings. The coil was handmade for the author and is about 4 inches high and 2 3/4 inches in diameter. It has windings for aerial, medium-wave, long-wave and reaction. The document also includes circuit diagrams from 1961 issues of Boy's Own Paper showing how to incorporate the coil into crystal and one-valve receiver circuits, along with corrections to errors in the original diagrams.

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Davey Long- and Medium-wave coil with aerial and reaction windings

The images from the January and June 1961 editions of Boy’s Own Paper are reproduced by kind
permission of Lutterworth Press, for private non-commercial use only.

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Above: This splendid example was kindly


made for me by Hugh Castellan. The former
is made from SRBP (Paxolin); windings are
26SWG enamelled copper wire, laquered
after completion. I look forward to using
this coil in a Davey design in due course.

Left: One-valver circuit and components list


from June 1961 BOP, with corrections and
valve connections in white (see text).
This coil has aerial, medium-wave, long-wave and reaction windings. Like most homebrew coils, this is a bulky
item at around 4 inches high and 2 3/4 inches diameter. But this genuine Davey design is a worthy substitute for the
commercially-made coils (Teletron D/R, Repanco DRR2) he often specified, provided sufficient space can be
found for it. And if made as well as the exampleabove, it will enhance any set!

The full article from January 1961 Boy’s Own Paper, describing the coil’s construction, is reproduced on pages 2 -
4 of this download. The article included a crystal circuit showing the reaction winding connected as an alternative
aerial winding, but there were some errors and omissions. The coil connections were un-numbered, no value was
given for the RF bypass capacitor, and the tuning capacitor, instead of 500pF or .0005µF, was specified as 500µF!
The errors were corrected in the April 1961 BOP, which featured a transistor set with the same crystal front end.
That article is not reproduced here, but the corrections (white text) have been added to the diagram overleaf.

The one-valver circuit and components list from June 1961 BOP, using the same coil - with the reaction winding
connected as such - appears on this page. There were errors here too unfortunately: R3 should go direct to HT+,
and HT- and LT- should be connected together (shown in white). We have also addedthe base connections to 1T4 /
DF91 (which differ fromthose to DAF91 / DAF96 usedin other versions of theBeginner’s One-valver.)

Further articles describing two- and three-valve receivers using the same coil were promised, but it seems they
were never published. The January (coil) and June (one-valver) articles were later combined and re-published in
the Boy’s Own Companion No 4, 1962, unfortunately with the same errors. Details for the coil itself were reprinted
in BOP October 1962 and Boy’sOwn Companion No 5, 1963.
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