{"id":2151,"date":"2015-07-17T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/17\/colins-tuna-tin-mighty-mite-video\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:49:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:49:41","slug":"colins-tuna-tin-mighty-mite-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/17\/colins-tuna-tin-mighty-mite-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin&#8217;s Tuna Tin  Mighty Mite (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N9Uo9XwNq_4?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/COLIN2527sMightyMite.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/COLIN2527sMightyMite.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong>You will remember Colin as the builder of that beautiful BITX20 that he first used from his backyard and later used with great success from a hilltop in Northern England. In this video we see Colin demonstrating his Michigan Mighty Mite. Lots of soul in that little machine! Colin notes that this rig worked well from the start. The Radio Gods were obviously pleased by his use of a tuna tin as the chassis. I think they also liked the MePads from W1REX and the Tek 465 &#8216;scope. And of course the T-shirt was obviously a key element in Colin&#8217;s success.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> Here is that beautiful BITX, now equipped with an internal speaker: <\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q7JOBBHKLM4?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe> <\/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>You will remember Colin as the builder of that beautiful BITX20 that he first used from his backyard and later used with great success from a hilltop in Northern England. In this video we see Colin demonstrating his Michigan Mighty Mite. Lots of soul in that little machine! Colin notes that this rig worked well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/17\/colins-tuna-tin-mighty-mite-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Colin&#8217;s Tuna Tin  Mighty Mite (Video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,280,24,168,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx20","category-harper-rex","category-michigan-mighty-mite","category-tuna-tin-2","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","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=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}