{"id":3336,"date":"2017-10-03T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/10\/03\/the-homebrew-receivers-of-f5lvg\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:59:36","slug":"the-homebrew-receivers-of-f5lvg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/10\/03\/the-homebrew-receivers-of-f5lvg\/","title":{"rendered":"The Homebrew Receivers of F5LVG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/f5lvgInternet.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"600\" data-original-width=\"800\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/f5lvgInternet.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b>I came across OM F5LVG&#8217;s work in SPRAT. He has a wonderful website &#8212; it is in French, but Google Chrome translates is quite nicely. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b><a href=\"http:\/\/oernst.f5lvg.free.fr\/index.html\">http:\/\/oernst.f5lvg.free.fr\/index.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <b>From the site&#8217;s introduction: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <i><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><b><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">This site is dedicated to the construction and understanding of radio receivers. <\/span><\/b><\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><b><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">If you have dreamed of hearing a radio station with a receiver that you have built yourself, this site is for you. <\/span><\/b><\/span><b><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">These are essentially direct conversion receivers and modern feedback detectors using only semiconductors, except for retrofitting. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The described stations will accommodate amplitude modulation, single sideband (SSB) and telegraphy.<\/span><\/b><\/i> <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"> <span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><b><i><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Besides these receivers several articles are devoted to LC oscillators. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">In particular, an extremely simple original stabilizing device is described.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"> <span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><b><i>Similarly, a simple frequency meter is described.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"> <span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><b><i><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The joy of reception using a homebrew receiver is intense. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">May this site help you find this joy. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Do not hesitate to join the amateur community.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p> <b><br \/><\/b> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across OM F5LVG&#8217;s work in SPRAT. He has a wonderful website &#8212; it is in French, but Google Chrome translates is quite nicely. http:\/\/oernst.f5lvg.free.fr\/index.html From the site&#8217;s introduction: This site is dedicated to the construction and understanding of radio receivers. If you have dreamed of hearing a radio station with a receiver that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/10\/03\/the-homebrew-receivers-of-f5lvg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Homebrew Receivers of F5LVG&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,227,148,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-direct-conversion","category-france","category-regens","category-sprat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336","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=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3338,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions\/3338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}