{"id":6233,"date":"2022-05-19T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/05\/19\/frank-joness-homebrew-rig-as-described-by-michael-hopkins-ab5l-sk\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:03:30","slug":"frank-joness-homebrew-rig-as-described-by-michael-hopkins-ab5l-sk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/05\/19\/frank-joness-homebrew-rig-as-described-by-michael-hopkins-ab5l-sk\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Jones&#8217;s Homebrew Rig &#8212; as described by Michael Hopkins AB5L (SK)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Jones20Book.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"501\" data-original-width=\"358\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Jones20Book.png\" width=\"286\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Frank is all homebrew. His receiver is unshielded outside, but built around a central square of aluminum that houses a Velvet Vernier dial thru the front panel and some tubes I did not recognize jutting horizontally on both sides of the box where coils also plug in. The transmitter is a multi-stage affair on a piece of particle board. The tubes are vertical here, and the bench was littered with brown Hammarlund coils labeled 5, 10, 20, and 80.&#8221; <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/summer-reading-for-homebrewers-frank.html\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/summer-reading-for-homebrewers-frank.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/qsl.net\/ve7sl\/jones%20oscillator.html\">https:\/\/qsl.net\/ve7sl\/jones%20oscillator.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Frank is all homebrew. His receiver is unshielded outside, but built around a central square of aluminum that houses a Velvet Vernier dial thru the front panel and some tubes I did not recognize jutting horizontally on both sides of the box where coils also plug in. The transmitter is a multi-stage affair on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/05\/19\/frank-joness-homebrew-rig-as-described-by-michael-hopkins-ab5l-sk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Frank Jones&#8217;s Homebrew Rig &#8212; as described by Michael Hopkins AB5L (SK)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,100,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jones-frank","category-old-radio","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6235,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233\/revisions\/6235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}