{"id":5225,"date":"2020-02-14T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/02\/14\/the-si4730-radio-chip-luddite-alert-video\/"},"modified":"2020-02-14T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:26:00","slug":"the-si4730-radio-chip-luddite-alert-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/02\/14\/the-si4730-radio-chip-luddite-alert-video\/","title":{"rendered":"The Si4730 Radio Chip (Luddite Alert!)  (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zPlVdLj5gFg\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>I have misgivings about this. Hack-A-Day presents it as a DIY radio project and wonders if this might be the modern equivalent of the crystal radio projects of days-gone-by. But notice that the &#8220;build&#8221; video focuses mostly on building the box. The electronic &#8220;building&#8221; of this radio mostly involves plugging in two chips, or two boards with chips. My questions are: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>1) When this project is finished, who REALLY built it? You, or the Si4730 manufacturer? <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>2) After you&#8217;ve &#8220;built&#8221; this thing, would you have the same sense of accomplishment that you get from an analog, discrete component project? Or even from that crystal radio? <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Of course, to each his own. This is all for fun. Have fun with the Si4730. But today I&#8217;ll be working on my Hallicrafters S-38E. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2020\/02\/12\/all-band-radio-uses-arduino-and-si4730\/\"><b>https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2020\/02\/12\/all-band-radio-uses-arduino-and-si4730\/<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have misgivings about this. Hack-A-Day presents it as a DIY radio project and wonders if this might be the modern equivalent of the crystal radio projects of days-gone-by. But notice that the &#8220;build&#8221; video focuses mostly on building the box. The electronic &#8220;building&#8221; of this radio mostly involves plugging in two chips, or two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/02\/14\/the-si4730-radio-chip-luddite-alert-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Si4730 Radio Chip (Luddite Alert!)  (video)&#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":[359,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ics","category-si5351"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225","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=5225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}