{"id":5958,"date":"2020-04-18T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/04\/18\/q-31-quarantine-receiver-30-db-and-a-germanium-diode-help-a-lot-video\/"},"modified":"2020-04-18T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T12:53:00","slug":"q-31-quarantine-receiver-30-db-and-a-germanium-diode-help-a-lot-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/04\/18\/q-31-quarantine-receiver-30-db-and-a-germanium-diode-help-a-lot-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Q-31 Quarantine Receiver &#8212; +30 db and a Germanium Diode Help a Lot (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\/mk7UDA70Utw\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>Today I added two additional stages of IF amplification. This added 30 db to the receiver&#8217;s total gain. That helped a lot. I also discovered that Germanium (1N34A) diodes work a LOT better as AM detectors than do silicon diodes. This receiver is starting to sound decent. Currently listening to the VORW program on WRMI Miami. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I added two additional stages of IF amplification. This added 30 db to the receiver&#8217;s total gain. That helped a lot. I also discovered that Germanium (1N34A) diodes work a LOT better as AM detectors than do silicon diodes. This receiver is starting to sound decent. Currently listening to the VORW program on WRMI &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/04\/18\/q-31-quarantine-receiver-30-db-and-a-germanium-diode-help-a-lot-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Q-31 Quarantine Receiver &#8212; +30 db and a Germanium Diode Help a Lot (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":[270,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quarantine","category-superhet-receivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958","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=5958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}