{"id":3132,"date":"2011-03-08T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/03\/08\/aa1tjs-dream-no-tubes-no-transistors-alternators\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:37:03","slug":"aa1tjs-dream-no-tubes-no-transistors-alternators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/03\/08\/aa1tjs-dream-no-tubes-no-transistors-alternators\/","title":{"rendered":"AA1TJ&#8217;s Dream: No Tubes, No Transistors&#8230; ALTERNATORS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Karl_Schmidt_In_Out.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Karl_Schmidt_In_Out.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581658780458664002\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Treat yourself today to an experience in radio enthusiasm and innovation: Go to<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/aa1tj.blogspot.com\/\"> AA1TJ&#8217;s blog <\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">and read about his latest creation: The Schmidtschem. Michael begins his post this way:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:\";font-size:130%;\" ><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I&#8217;ve dreamed and schemed, off and on, for the last twenty five years over the prospect of constructing a complete, high-frequency (HF) amateur radio station without the use of vacuum tubes or semiconductors&#8230;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;\" > Having considered and subsequently rejected a number of esoteric possibilities, I eventually concluded that a system based on electromagnetic alternators was the most promising.<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;\" > <\/span><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">He has a prototype on the air, using it with a no-gain receiver, and he is making a lot of contacts. Check it out: <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/aa1tj.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-family:Trebuchet MS;\">http:\/\/aa1tj.blogspot.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treat yourself today to an experience in radio enthusiasm and innovation: Go to AA1TJ&#8217;s blog and read about his latest creation: The Schmidtschem. Michael begins his post this way:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,87,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aa1tj","category-qrp","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132","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=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3134,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions\/3134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}