{"id":2649,"date":"2022-11-15T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/11\/15\/amazingly-cool-montv-video-on-direct-conversion-receivers-with-glue-stick-ptos\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:55","slug":"amazingly-cool-montv-video-on-direct-conversion-receivers-with-glue-stick-ptos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/11\/15\/amazingly-cool-montv-video-on-direct-conversion-receivers-with-glue-stick-ptos\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazingly Cool MONTV Video on Direct Conversion Receivers with Glue Stick PTOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xl9dnajkYO0?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>I think this is one of Nick&#8217;s best videos. And he has made a lot of good ones. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xl9dnajkYO0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xl9dnajkYO0<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>This is a really excellent description of how a Direct Conversion receiver works. But more importantly Nick really captures the joy of building one of these receivers using discrete, analog components, including a Permeability Tuned Oscillator made from our beloved Glue Sticks. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Extra mojo comes in the form of a mixer designed by Pete Juliano using J310s to simulate a 40673 dual gate MOSFET. Fantastic. Icing on the cake comes from a W8DIZ AF amp out of SPRAT magazine. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>There is a grand finale. I won&#8217;t spoil it. Watch the video. Suffice it to say that Farhan would be pleased with this. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Great stuff. Thanks Nick! <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is one of Nick&#8217;s best videos. And he has made a lot of good ones. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xl9dnajkYO0 This is a really excellent description of how a Direct Conversion receiver works. But more importantly Nick really captures the joy of building one of these receivers using discrete, analog components, including a Permeability Tuned Oscillator &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/11\/15\/amazingly-cool-montv-video-on-direct-conversion-receivers-with-glue-stick-ptos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazingly Cool MONTV Video on Direct Conversion Receivers with Glue Stick PTOs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,66,285,41,365,17,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-direct-conversion","category-farhan","category-glue-sticks","category-juliano-pete","category-pto","category-sprat","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","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=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11344,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions\/11344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}