When the more complex but superior superhetrodyne receivers (another Armstrong invention) arrived around a decade later the popularity of regenerative receivers went into decline, and they had ...

While regenerative receivers aren’t the most common architecture today, they still have their place. The inventor, Edwin Armstrong, developed quite a bit of radio tech that we still use today.

A better circuit was needed and in 1913 Armstrong patented the regenerative receiver. This produced very high gain and immediately caught on. As a result of the invention Armstrong was soon a ...

Click HERE NOW Pittman named a number of receivers he thinks can make a splash beyond Armstrong: Tyrone Broden, Isaiah ...