This is a reconstruction of an old Pescarus romanian radio receiver. It was built and sold on stores during the socialist era, he was using germanium trasistors and it was quite sensitive for that period.
I applaud your effort to build and align a superhet, especially when modern microprocessors and software defined receivers make it so much easier to achieve the same results. Building these devices gives you an advantage in understanding the underlying principles of a technology that dominated much of the 20th century and is the basis of many modern devices.
Hello, yes, of course, you can attach a digital frequency meter( with PIC16F628 by ex) to the oscillator coil and you set it to display VFO-IF, that's exactly the received frequency. You can find such project here: www.hamradio.in/projects/multifunctional-frequency-counter
