{"id":2758,"date":"2016-04-23T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/04\/23\/a-reduction-drive-for-the-mighty-midgets-mate-receiver\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:54:00","slug":"a-reduction-drive-for-the-mighty-midgets-mate-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/04\/23\/a-reduction-drive-for-the-mighty-midgets-mate-receiver\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reduction Drive for the Mighty Midget&#8217;s Mate Receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_0100.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_0100.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>This morning I put a reduction drive onto the main tuning cap of my 6U8 Mate for the Mighty Midget receiver. Before I had been directly turning the 35 pf variable cap. The tuning rate was a bit too high for easy tuning of SSB stations. This drive went in nicely and it does reduce the tuning rate considerably, but it feels a bit tight. Is there anyway to loosen up one of these drives? <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I put a reduction drive onto the main tuning cap of my 6U8 Mate for the Mighty Midget receiver. Before I had been directly turning the 35 pf variable cap. The tuning rate was a bit too high for easy tuning of SSB stations. This drive went in nicely and it does reduce &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/04\/23\/a-reduction-drive-for-the-mighty-midgets-mate-receiver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Reduction Drive for the Mighty Midget&#8217;s Mate Receiver&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,262,100,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mate-for-the-mighty-midget","category-mccoy-lew","category-old-radio","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","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=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2760,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/2760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}