{"id":5283,"date":"2021-03-16T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/03\/16\/a-really-cheap-receiving-rig\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:39:41","slug":"a-really-cheap-receiving-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/03\/16\/a-really-cheap-receiving-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"A REALLY Cheap Receiving Rig"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CheapRXoutfit.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"862\" data-original-width=\"386\" height=\"798\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CheapRXoutfit.jpg\" width=\"357\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><b>Wow, lots of ingenuity in this 1921 receiver.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8212; Has anyone actually made a diode out of a light bulb in the way described? <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8212; The antenna coupler on the table leg is not much different from the tuner that I have attached to the wall of my car port. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8212; Note that when our hero finishes the receiver, he is able to pick up signals from Mars! FB OM. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Who will be the first to recreate this 1921 receiver? <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, lots of ingenuity in this 1921 receiver. &#8212; Has anyone actually made a diode out of a light bulb in the way described? &#8212; The antenna coupler on the table leg is not much different from the tuner that I have attached to the wall of my car port. &#8212; Note that when our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/03\/16\/a-really-cheap-receiving-rig\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A REALLY Cheap Receiving Rig&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,308,100,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cartoons","category-mars","category-old-radio","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283","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=5283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5285,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions\/5285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}