{"id":1735,"date":"2023-04-06T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/04\/06\/the-irf510-the-car-turn-signal-blinkers-used-as-rf-amplifiers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:25","slug":"the-irf510-the-car-turn-signal-blinkers-used-as-rf-amplifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/04\/06\/the-irf510-the-car-turn-signal-blinkers-used-as-rf-amplifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"The IRF510: The Car Turn-Signal Blinkers Used As RF Amplifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjXcmx7qKSvTzhhtcQnDqKOO4b1E1zYIAO2peWoojejI1gGsufxA7Dq8UzCdXW1wjOX4N8TCvOyrvCitDwl7cjpt0vT8sqqUGjndHAZslj0_o9xJZ7ZFQW2G53mlfgBQ7kLPji_IHfNtxGQ1aidzINGdCoX7HJohsF15VzJMDNkzluCGknjTuhS4hu1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"160\" data-original-width=\"431\" height=\"149\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image_1753063505.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><i>I have many of these MOSFETS in my rigs. Yesterday I came across Paul Harden NA5N&#8217;s excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/hyse.org\/pdf\/www.aoc.nrao.edu\/~pharden\/hobby\/Hobby.shtml\">Handiman&#8217;s Guide series<\/a>. It had this really wonderful paragraph about the history of this part. I-R is the International Rectifier company. <\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjjkffgPauinTswit7zjYnan9I9Mr5Rsj0-a6vOl49C7xeqxmntFBV_kBRduwQ6Pp22_RSjHgCLgpwQYb-04KtldJE9lyl81AGzhIb9jvbxhNV0SQPOS8IM3wQJOultNscKs6I3bHtYiAbHeFCH-Rk7y8VPNahqzWpdhOXxSrXqYLTaZfo6ZeDZ9t7l\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"285\" data-original-width=\"258\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image_1753063507.png\" width=\"362\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hyse.org\/pdf\/www.aoc.nrao.edu\/~pharden\/hobby\/_ClassDEF1.pdf\">https:\/\/hyse.org\/pdf\/www.aoc.nrao.edu\/~pharden\/hobby\/_ClassDEF1.pdf<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hyse.org\/pdf\/www.aoc.nrao.edu\/~pharden\/hobby\/Hobby.shtml\">https:\/\/hyse.org\/pdf\/www.aoc.nrao.edu\/~pharden\/hobby\/Hobby.shtml<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have many of these MOSFETS in my rigs. Yesterday I came across Paul Harden NA5N&#8217;s excellent Handiman&#8217;s Guide series. It had this really wonderful paragraph about the history of this part. I-R is the International Rectifier company. https:\/\/hyse.org\/pdf\/www.aoc.nrao.edu\/~pharden\/hobby\/_ClassDEF1.pdf https:\/\/hyse.org\/pdf\/www.aoc.nrao.edu\/~pharden\/hobby\/Hobby.shtml<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,305],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-harden-paul","category-irf510"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","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=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}