{"id":3202,"date":"2015-11-12T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/11\/12\/psst-i-know-a-guy-with-some-caps-variable-caps-real-beauties-but-only-for-mighty-mites\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:43:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:43:40","slug":"psst-i-know-a-guy-with-some-caps-variable-caps-real-beauties-but-only-for-mighty-mites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/11\/12\/psst-i-know-a-guy-with-some-caps-variable-caps-real-beauties-but-only-for-mighty-mites\/","title":{"rendered":"Psst&#8230; I know a guy with some caps&#8230;. Variable caps&#8230; Real beauties&#8230;. But only for Mighty Mites."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/400uufcap.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/400uufcap.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong>Feast your eyes my friends. That is 400 micro-microfarads of variable capacitance. (400 picofarads for you sophisticated young folks.) A benefactor interested in expanding the ranks of the Color-Burst Liberation Army has stepped forward to make us an offer that is hard to resist: He will send ELIGIBLE recipients one each of these fine electronic components for the cost of postage (approximately 6 bucks in the USA). <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>He has specified that ELIGIBILITY is limited to those who need this part to build or complete a Michigan Mighty Mite. And I have been appointed &#8220;Grand Poobah and Chief Arbiter of Capacitor Eligibility.&#8221; <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>So here is the deal: Send me an e-mail telling me about your planned or stalled Michigan Mighty Mite project. Include some information about your personal &#8220;Knack Story&#8221; &#8212; tell us why you share in this strange compulsion to build a largely useless 250 mW 3.579 MHz oscillator. If I find your plans believable and your Knack Story compelling, I will recommend you for a capacitor.<\/strong> <strong>Purely aspirational MMM projects and obviously fabricated Knack Stories will not make the cut.<\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Supplies are limited, so act now! <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feast your eyes my friends. That is 400 micro-microfarads of variable capacitance. (400 picofarads for you sophisticated young folks.) A benefactor interested in expanding the ranks of the Color-Burst Liberation Army has stepped forward to make us an offer that is hard to resist: He will send ELIGIBLE recipients one each of these fine electronic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/11\/12\/psst-i-know-a-guy-with-some-caps-variable-caps-real-beauties-but-only-for-mighty-mites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Psst&#8230; I know a guy with some caps&#8230;. Variable caps&#8230; Real beauties&#8230;. But only for Mighty Mites.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knack-stories","category-michigan-mighty-mite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202","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=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3204,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions\/3204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}