{"id":232,"date":"2015-05-03T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/05\/03\/drake-dongle-derring-do-2b-goes-sdr-video\/"},"modified":"2015-05-03T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T07:50:00","slug":"drake-dongle-derring-do-2b-goes-sdr-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/05\/03\/drake-dongle-derring-do-2b-goes-sdr-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Dongle Derring-Do &#8212; 2B goes SDR   (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gVhz_URkAxo?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <strong>Here I take my Drake 2B &#8212; arguably the quintessential Hardware Defined Radio &#8212; and connect its first Intermediate Frequency circuitry to an RTL-SDR Dongle, allowing me to digitally process, filter, and display (panoramically!) the signals being inhaled by the ancient receiver. Another cool tech twist: To get at the 455 kHz IF signal I use the &#8220;Q-Multiplier&#8221; jack on the back of the receiver. This connector was put there to allow for the use of a selectivity enhancing regenerative stage. So I&#8217;m using that connector for a similar purpose, but using technology that wasn&#8217;t even being dreamed about when that Drake 2-B was being designed in 1961. <\/strong><\/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>Here I take my Drake 2B &#8212; arguably the quintessential Hardware Defined Radio &#8212; and connect its first Intermediate Frequency circuitry to an RTL-SDR Dongle, allowing me to digitally process, filter, and display (panoramically!) the signals being inhaled by the ancient receiver. Another cool tech twist: To get at the 455 kHz IF signal I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/05\/03\/drake-dongle-derring-do-2b-goes-sdr-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drake Dongle Derring-Do &#8212; 2B goes SDR   (video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,40,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drake-2b","category-sdr","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","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=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}