{"id":3140,"date":"2024-05-23T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/05\/23\/charlie-zl2ctms-new-receiver\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:41","slug":"charlie-zl2ctms-new-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/05\/23\/charlie-zl2ctms-new-receiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie ZL2CTM&#8217;s New Receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hvdq15Hyngg?si=8v_jVUEfDOHJR1C4?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>It is truly a thing of beauty. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I really like that variable capacitor. (Where did that come from? How can I get one?) <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Charlie&#8217;s calculations on each of the stages is &#8212; as always &#8212; really nice. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I like the J-310 infinite impedance detector, Charlie&#8217;s use of solder wick, the wooden base, and his decision to keep the circuitry visible. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I also like Charlie&#8217;s decision NOT to put that VFO in a metal box. Too often we see projects that try to convince us that the receiver just won&#8217;t work unless everything is hermetically sealed in submarine-like boxes. Not true! And Charlie&#8217;s receiver demonstates this. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Charlie is clearly keeping up the Kiwi tradition of fine homebrewing exemplified by the Tucker Tin 2, ZL2BMI&#8217;s DSB rig, and many other FB HB projects from ZL. <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/search?q=New+Zealand+DSB\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/search?q=New+Zealand+DSB<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Thanks Charlie! Be sure to check out the rest of his YouTube channel: <\/b><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CharlieMorrisZL2CTM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CharlieMorrisZL2CTM<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is truly a thing of beauty. I really like that variable capacitor. (Where did that come from? How can I get one?) Charlie&#8217;s calculations on each of the stages is &#8212; as always &#8212; really nice. I like the J-310 infinite impedance detector, Charlie&#8217;s use of solder wick, the wooden base, and his decision &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/05\/23\/charlie-zl2ctms-new-receiver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Charlie ZL2CTM&#8217;s New Receiver&#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":[350,127,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morris-charlie","category-new-zealand","category-superhet-receivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140","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=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11222,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions\/11222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}