{"id":3581,"date":"2009-12-11T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/mechanical-resonators\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:43:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:43:47","slug":"mechanical-resonators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/mechanical-resonators\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanical Resonators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjFrxI0CgsBunIdu6JBnAm0m8tib4MGBM2fBPk7sNaTuUmDJD9d7Rh0uGcycelT75v82DSi012L_5zu5TnfcPwSIosRCBgS0oOOhCf_r3L-ftG2hqvnvH0VAQIMDUbrIQWBkpwQ9XpyzYM\/s1600-h\/Drake2b.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 249px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Drake2b.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413856836362552706\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Mike, KC7IT, sent along this interesting article on the use of mechanical resonators in cell phones.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/telecom\/wireless\/radios-with-micromachined-resonators\">http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/telecom\/wireless\/radios-with-micromachined-resonators<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Somehow, this made me think of my beloved Drake 2B. The 2B uses an L-C filter at 50 kHz, but &#8212; sure enough &#8212; a quick visit to the e-ham review section showed that Henry Radio had a vailable a mechanical filter kit &#8212; some of the 2Bs out there are apparently fitted with this device.<br \/>Check out the e-ham Drake 2B love-fest: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eham.net\/reviews\/detail\/3868\">http:\/\/www.eham.net\/reviews\/detail\/3868<\/a> All of it true!<\/p>\n<p>And of course, this all provides an excuse to put up a picture of the Drake 2B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike, KC7IT, sent along this interesting article on the use of mechanical resonators in cell phones.http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/telecom\/wireless\/radios-with-micromachined-resonators Somehow, this made me think of my beloved Drake 2B. The 2B uses an L-C filter at 50 kHz, but &#8212; sure enough &#8212; a quick visit to the e-ham review section showed that Henry Radio had a vailable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/mechanical-resonators\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mechanical Resonators&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drake-2b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581","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=3581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3583,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions\/3583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}