{"id":10098,"date":"2018-02-07T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/02\/07\/f5lvgs-glue-built-mixer-transformer\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:50:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:50:46","slug":"f5lvgs-glue-built-mixer-transformer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/02\/07\/f5lvgs-glue-built-mixer-transformer\/","title":{"rendered":"F5LVG&#8217;s Glue-Built Mixer Transformer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/transformerglued2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/transformerglued2.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>One thing I forgot to mention: In Olivier F5LVG&#8217;s DC receiver article back in SPRAT 100, he casually mentioned building a transformer for his mixer by taking two inductors of the appropriate values and GLUING THEM TOGETHER. What a great idea! I had to try it. I did. Picture above. It worked in my Ceramic DC receiver, but the trifilar transformer from Farhan in India worked better. Perhaps the coupling was tighter. But hey, it worked. Three cheers for Olivier. <\/b><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I forgot to mention: In Olivier F5LVG&#8217;s DC receiver article back in SPRAT 100, he casually mentioned building a transformer for his mixer by taking two inductors of the appropriate values and GLUING THEM TOGETHER. What a great idea! I had to try it. I did. Picture above. It worked in my Ceramic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/02\/07\/f5lvgs-glue-built-mixer-transformer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;F5LVG&#8217;s Glue-Built Mixer Transformer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,227,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dc-receiver-build","category-france","category-mixer-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10100,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098\/revisions\/10100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}