{"id":2300,"date":"2020-02-23T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/02\/23\/trghs-hearing-k5hct-through-a-single-12au7-tube-with-12-volts-on-the-plate-video\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:02:38","slug":"trghs-hearing-k5hct-through-a-single-12au7-tube-with-12-volts-on-the-plate-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/02\/23\/trghs-hearing-k5hct-through-a-single-12au7-tube-with-12-volts-on-the-plate-video\/","title":{"rendered":"TRGHS: Hearing K5HCT Through a Single 12AU7 Tube with 12 Volts on the Plate (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NTn_XkB4fQ4\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>The lower portion of the column on the right-hand side of this blog is where I put links to interesting blogs, YouTube channels, and web sites. Yesterday one of the links there led me to the above video. It presents a regen receiver using one 12AU7 tube and a 12 volt power supply. Wow! I have many of those tubes. And at 12 volts I am unlikely to electrocute myself. Count me in. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>In the final minute or so of the video, the builder tunes around the 40 meter phone band. Suddenly I heard a familiar voice. It wasn&#8217;t recorded long enough for the callsign to be heard, but I was pretty sure it was our old friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/K5HCT\">August, K5HCT (Here Comes Texas) from Odessa<\/a>. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Odessa, Texas is a good skip distance from both California and Virginia, so Pete and I have both talked to August many times. When I was testing out new homebrew contraptions, August was often there to help me out. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>I was pretty sure it was August in the video. I checked with Pete &#8212; he too recognized the voice. Then I got an e-mail response from August &#8212; yea, it was him. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>On the air, I often recognize a voice before I hear a callsign. In this case it happened via a somewhat wobbly regen and the internet. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>THE RADIO GODS HAVE SPOKEN. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Now where did I leave those 12AU7s? <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/K5HCTQSL.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"533\" data-original-width=\"800\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/K5HCTQSL.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lower portion of the column on the right-hand side of this blog is where I put links to interesting blogs, YouTube channels, and web sites. Yesterday one of the links there led me to the above video. It presents a regen receiver using one 12AU7 tube and a 12 volt power supply. Wow! I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/02\/23\/trghs-hearing-k5hct-through-a-single-12au7-tube-with-12-volts-on-the-plate-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TRGHS: Hearing K5HCT Through a Single 12AU7 Tube with 12 Volts on the Plate (Video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,148,101,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-40-meters","category-regens","category-tubes","category-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","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=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2302,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}