{"id":6044,"date":"2016-01-28T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/01\/28\/alan-wolke-w2aew-builds-a-michigan-mighty-mite-video\/"},"modified":"2016-01-28T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T23:32:00","slug":"alan-wolke-w2aew-builds-a-michigan-mighty-mite-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/01\/28\/alan-wolke-w2aew-builds-a-michigan-mighty-mite-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Wolke W2AEW Builds a Michigan Mighty Mite (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2AdW9Zpl2Es?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>We are honored to induct Alan Wolke W2AEW into the Colorburst Liberation Army. And for his valiant effort to build and explain a MMM Low-Pass filter, he is immediately promoted to the rank of CBLA Two Star General. Congratulations General Wolke.<\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>As is the case with all of his videos, this one has already had an impact far and wide. Ian writes from far-off Western Australia: <\/b><br \/> <span class=\"loader\" role=\"presentation\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"loz\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1453976711614_2597\" role=\"presentation\"> <span class=\"btn btn-contact lozenge small left right\" data-action=\"contact-menu\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1453976711614_2596\" role=\"presentation\" tabindex=\"-1\"><a dir=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com\/neo\/launch?.rand=bf4d4opb7ln1e#\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1453976711614_2631\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"\"><\/a> <\/span> <\/div>\n<div class=\"thread-info\" role=\"presentation\"> <span class=\"thread-date\" role=\"presentation\"><span class=\"short\" role=\"presentation\" title-off=\"\" title=\"Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 6:19 PM\"><i><b><span style=\"color: blue;\"> Jan 27 at 6:19 <\/span><\/b><\/i><span class=\"ampm\"><i><b><span style=\"color: blue;\">PM<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><i><b><span style=\"color: blue;\"> <\/span><\/b><\/i><\/span> <\/div>\n<div class=\"thread-body\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1453976711614_2071\" role=\"presentation\">\n<div class=\"body undoreset\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1453976711614_2614\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div class=\"email-wrapped\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1453976711614_2613\">\n<div id=\"yiv5896108226\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1453976711614_2612\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1453976711614_2610\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1453976711614_2609\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1453976711614_2608\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1453976711614_2607\"> <i><b><span style=\"color: blue;\">G&#8217;day Bill,<\/span><\/b><\/i><i><b><span style=\"color: blue;\">Just in case none of your other correspondents have brought it to your attention, <\/span><\/b><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2AdW9Zpl2Es\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><i><b><span style=\"color: blue;\">here<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/a><i><b><span style=\"color: blue;\"> is a great video W2AEW has put up showing really clearly the positive effect of a low pass filter on the output of the Michigan Mighty-Mite.<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <i><b><span style=\"color: blue;\">It made me appreciate the benefits of an LPF more fully. It&#8217;s always been clear to me that the harmonics would get rolled off, but in my head I hadn&#8217;t made the connection between that and the improvement to the beautiful smooth sine wave that we are working towards.<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<p> <i><b><span style=\"color: blue;\">Anyway, I thought you, and your mate Steve &#8220;Snort Rosin&#8221; Smith may be interested.<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div> <i><b><span style=\"color: blue;\">Thanks to you and Pete for Soldersmoke, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re responsible for keeping the flame alight in many a ham.<\/p>\n<p>73,<\/span><\/b><\/i><i><b><span style=\"color: blue;\">Ian VK6MIB<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div> <b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div> <b>And Steve &#8220;Snort Rosin&#8221; Smith, the guru of low pass filters, observes: <\/b><\/div>\n<div> <b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div> <i><b><span style=\"color: blue;\">Of course, to work properly in the land down under, the inductors must be wound in the opposite direction as those in the Northern Hemisphere \ud83d\ude1b .<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, there is a lot to be learned from the lowly Mighty Mite especially regarding impedance matching; not to mention LC circuits, link coupling, amplifiers, oscillators, etc. . What fun!<\/p>\n<p>73&#8230;&#8230;.SR<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are honored to induct Alan Wolke W2AEW into the Colorburst Liberation Army. And for his valiant effort to build and explain a MMM Low-Pass filter, he is immediately promoted to the rank of CBLA Two Star General. Congratulations General Wolke. As is the case with all of his videos, this one has already had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/01\/28\/alan-wolke-w2aew-builds-a-michigan-mighty-mite-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alan Wolke W2AEW Builds a Michigan Mighty Mite (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":[29,16,24,319,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-filters","category-michigan-mighty-mite","category-smith-steve","category-wolke-alan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044","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=6044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}