{"id":10417,"date":"2014-12-22T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/12\/22\/a-very-simple-and-stable-vfo\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:28:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:28:05","slug":"a-very-simple-and-stable-vfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/12\/22\/a-very-simple-and-stable-vfo\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Simple and Stable VFO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/StableVFO.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/StableVFO.jpg\" height=\"278\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b>From the November 1964 issue of 73 Magazine, by way of a compendium book sent to me from New York City by Dave W2DAB, comes words of wisdom about how to make a simple, super-stable VFO. Lots of great ideas in this article. My favorite was running the thing off D cell batteries and leaving it on all the time! The article was written by Roger Taylor, K9ALD. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Here is the article: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/73-magazine-1964-11\/11_November_1964#page\/n11\/mode\/1up\">http:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/73-magazine-1964-11\/11_November_1964#page\/n11\/mode\/1up<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <b>Thanks to Dave, Roger, Wayne Green and the Internet Archive. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/vFO2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/vFO2.jpg\" height=\"267\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b><br \/><\/b> <br \/> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the November 1964 issue of 73 Magazine, by way of a compendium book sent to me from New York City by Dave W2DAB, comes words of wisdom about how to make a simple, super-stable VFO. Lots of great ideas in this article. My favorite was running the thing off D cell batteries and leaving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/12\/22\/a-very-simple-and-stable-vfo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Very Simple and Stable VFO&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-green-wayne","category-magazines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417","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=10417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10420,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417\/revisions\/10420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}