Talk:Neutrodyne

Re: the 'How-to Complaint' on this Article about neutralization. Does this "contain instructions, advice, or how-to content" or does it "present the fact" that it is a lot of trouble to set up these receivers so they are easy for the layperson to tune.

At least a (lengthy) one sentence explanation should remain giving the gist of the procedure (without details) to establish the facts of how it differs from other Receivers in this respect.

Some people are more interested in this history than others, just because some find it dull does not speak for all. Still, the Article is unclear about why other early Receivers were hard to tune.

70.71.107.184 (talk) 09:24, 14 January 2014 (UTC)


 * It has nothing to do with whether it is dull or interesting, we deliberately do not consider these things when deciding what to include for the very reason you state: it is a subjective matter for the individual reader. Without doubt the (now deleted) passage was written in a "how-to" style and is thus in breach of WP:NOT, one of our core content policies.  It also addressed the reader directly in the second person, a breach of MOS:YOU.  Most importantly, it did not carry a citation, so fails WP:V, another core content policy.  Without a source to work from, no one is going to provide an acceptable summary as you request, or at least no one should do it.  Instead of coming here to complain about the how-to template, you would have been better off fixing the problem so that it didn't get deleted in the first place. SpinningSpark 18:47, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

- In the History section it says: "A major defect of the TRF receiver was that, due to the high interelectrode capacitance of early triode vacuum tubes, feedback within the RF amplifier stages gave them a tendency to oscillate"

But isn't this more a "major defect" of the triode valves used, later overcome by using tetrode/pentode valves, than the TRF receiver design itself? Notwithstanding that the TRF receiver design has problems of its own!

Would it help to change this to read: "A major defect of the TRF receiver at the time was that, due to the high interelectrode capacitance of early triode vacuum tubes, feedback within the RF amplifier stages gave them a tendency to oscillate" 31.125.76.2 (talk) 16:07, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

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