{"id":10473,"date":"2014-09-02T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/09\/02\/sometimes-the-receivers-seem-to-almost-self-assemble\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:34:12","slug":"sometimes-the-receivers-seem-to-almost-self-assemble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/09\/02\/sometimes-the-receivers-seem-to-almost-self-assemble\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes the Receivers Seem to Almost Self-Assemble"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1010085.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\/2011\/12\/P1010085.jpg\" height=\"298\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b>I&#8217;ve been building shelves for my wife. So I end up with all these nice pieces of pine, just the right size for the base of a breadboard receiver and a very sturdy cabinet to surround it. Then I find in the junk box two nice variable caps and this old pill bottle coil (with tickler!) that I wound in 1998; I figure they will resonate from around 5 &#8211; 15 MHz. Then Jeff Murray, K1NSS does that poster about Dave Richards, AA7EE (scroll down) in which he mentions the virtues of a National Velvet Vernier reduction drive &#8212; I have one of those too. And then there is the copper-clad board (from AL7RV\/W8NSA) that would be perfect for the front panel. You see where this is going, right? My friends, I am once again on the road to shortwave regeneration. It will have an Armstrong detector with throttle cap. <\/b><\/p>\n<p> 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>I&#8217;ve been building shelves for my wife. So I end up with all these nice pieces of pine, just the right size for the base of a breadboard receiver and a very sturdy cabinet to surround it. Then I find in the junk box two nice variable caps and this old pill bottle coil (with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/09\/02\/sometimes-the-receivers-seem-to-almost-self-assemble\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sometimes the Receivers Seem to Almost Self-Assemble&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,100,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cartoons","category-old-radio","category-regens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473","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=10473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10474,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473\/revisions\/10474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}