{"id":10966,"date":"2024-12-11T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/12\/11\/mike-wu2ds-video-on-the-simplex-super-receiver-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:19","slug":"mike-wu2ds-video-on-the-simplex-super-receiver-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/12\/11\/mike-wu2ds-video-on-the-simplex-super-receiver-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike WU2D&#8217;s Video on the SimpleX Super Receiver &#8212; Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tqbQ3lyE3D4?si=NMFNJjTIffP2zYrP?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>Another FB video from Mike WU2D. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>But you know, I too find myself kind of opposed to front panel on-off switches. I power my rigs with small DC supplies. I just turn on the supply when I want to use one of the rigs. I don&#8217;t have or need a switch on the front panel of the rig. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>I especially liked Mike&#8217;s use of the gate dip meter and, of course, the Q meter. FB OM. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>I must say I have a preference for the first version, but only because I dislike the regenerative circuit in the second version. I do like the newer-style coils &#8212; I have one in the BFO of the Mate for the Mighty Midget receiver. <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>Thanks Mike for the sideband inversion factoid in Part 1! The Hallas Rule &#8212; words to live by. <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>One word of caution. I used 6U8s on my Mate for the Mighty Midget receiver. I had good results, but WA9WFA had a lot of trouble. We eventually concluded that the 6U8s didn&#8217;t age well. And they were quite long in the tooth. We found (from the tube guys) that 6EA8s aged better and were a good and easy sub for the venerable (perhaps TOO venerable) 6U8s. I switched tubes in my rig and it did seem to work better. BTW, this is the receiver that I use to listen to the Old Military Radio Net on Saturday mornings. <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>Here is the story of our switch from 6U8s to 6EA8s: <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"><a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2022\/02\/6ea8s-in-mate-for-mighty-midget-and.html&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1734007801588000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3KXN35I5Rx1k0FRV2e_X3W\" href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2022\/02\/6ea8s-in-mate-for-mighty-midget-and.html\" style=\"color: #1155cc;\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.<wbr><\/wbr>com\/2022\/02\/6ea8s-in-mate-for-<wbr><\/wbr>mighty-midget-and.html<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another FB video from Mike WU2D. But you know, I too find myself kind of opposed to front panel on-off switches. I power my rigs with small DC supplies. I just turn on the supply when I want to use one of the rigs. I don&#8217;t have or need a switch on the front panel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/12\/11\/mike-wu2ds-video-on-the-simplex-super-receiver-part-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mike WU2D&#8217;s Video on the SimpleX Super Receiver &#8212; Part II&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,121,120,57,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mate-for-the-mighty-midget","category-murphy-mike-wu2d","category-qst","category-superhet-receivers","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10966","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11175,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10966\/revisions\/11175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}