{"id":1977,"date":"2023-11-15T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/11\/15\/whole-earth-catalog-part-ii-more-on-swl-and-a-hippy-one-tube-receiver\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:03","slug":"whole-earth-catalog-part-ii-more-on-swl-and-a-hippy-one-tube-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/11\/15\/whole-earth-catalog-part-ii-more-on-swl-and-a-hippy-one-tube-receiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole Earth Catalog Part II:  More on SWL (and a Hippy One-Tube Receiver)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Whole20Earth20-20McKusick20on20SW20Radio.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1606\" data-original-width=\"1265\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Whole20Earth20-20McKusick20on20SW20Radio.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Click on image for a better view<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Lee McKusick was correct about many things, but of course we were a bit disappointed by his focus on store bought gear. But the 1971 Whole Earth catalog made up for this by publishing the schematic for a very simple single-triode receiver: <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Whole20Earth20Regen-scaled.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1071\" data-original-width=\"3000\" height=\"116\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Whole20Earth20Regen-scaled.jpg\" width=\"325\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Click on image for a better view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><span><b>There is a follow-up article on grid leak detectors here: <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/11\/the-grid-leak-detector-follow-up-from.html\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/11\/the-grid-leak-detector-follow-up-from.html<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on image for a better view Lee McKusick was correct about many things, but of course we were a bit disappointed by his focus on store bought gear. But the 1971 Whole Earth catalog made up for this by publishing the schematic for a very simple single-triode receiver: Click on image for a better &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/11\/15\/whole-earth-catalog-part-ii-more-on-swl-and-a-hippy-one-tube-receiver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whole Earth Catalog Part II:  More on SWL (and a Hippy One-Tube Receiver)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,72,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regens","category-short-wave-listening","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","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=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1980,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}