Hi Friends. It is November. Over the long weekend, I completed my FM Receiver using a single FET transistor. MPF102, @N5457, etc...even the 2N5486. The Audio amp is the ordinary LM386 but with a transistor driver. It's load enough to drive a speaker. I even picked up the Control Tower with a change in capacitor. I built the tuning capacitor version and the slug tuned version. The later is compact and will be ideal for our FM Walkie Talkie!

     We can actually make any receiver(except for the very high frequencies) with just one FET transistor. Then we can use a common hi gain audio amp. We shall be moving towards building receivers using the intermediate frequencies, 455KHZ and the 10.7Mhz.