{"id":6728,"date":"2024-02-17T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/02\/17\/nate-ka1muqs-amazing-thermatron-receiver\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:42","slug":"nate-ka1muqs-amazing-thermatron-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/02\/17\/nate-ka1muqs-amazing-thermatron-receiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Nate KA1MUQ&#8217;s Amazing Thermatron Receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kTQY4x8Vz7g?si=r9weT66kvMdHleW8?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/natesbasement123.blogspot.com\/2024\/02\/thank-you-bill-dean-grayson-pete-and.html\"><b>https:\/\/natesbasement123.blogspot.com\/2024\/02\/thank-you-bill-dean-grayson-pete-and.html<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/natesbasement123.blogspot.com\/2024\/02\/thank-you-bill-dean-grayson-pete-and.html\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Wow, some really wonderful work is taking place in Nate KA1MUQ&#8217;s basement in California. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8212; I really like the pill bottle coil forms. I wonder if Nate faced suspicion (and possible arrest) in the pharmacy when he asked for the pill bottles. (I got some suspicious looks when I went I asked for empty pill bottles while building my thermatron Mate for the Mighty Midget receiver back in 1998.) <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8212; The variable capacitors are also quite cool, as is the big rotary switch. Is that for band switching? <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8212; Oh man, all on a plywood board. Frank Jones would approve! <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8212; Indeed Nate, that beautiful receiver NEEDS an analog VFO. And we need to hear it inhaling phone sigs, not that FT8 stuff. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8212; Please keep us posted on your progress. And of course, one hand behind your back OM. Lots of high voltage on those thermatrons. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Thanks Nate! <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/natesbasement123.blogspot.com\/2024\/02\/thank-you-bill-dean-grayson-pete-and.html Wow, some really wonderful work is taking place in Nate KA1MUQ&#8217;s basement in California. &#8212; I really like the pill bottle coil forms. I wonder if Nate faced suspicion (and possible arrest) in the pharmacy when he asked for the pill bottles. (I got some suspicious looks when I went I asked for empty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/02\/17\/nate-ka1muqs-amazing-thermatron-receiver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nate KA1MUQ&#8217;s Amazing Thermatron Receiver&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,10,41,90,57,101,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evans-grayson","category-jones-frank","category-juliano-pete","category-souleles-dean","category-superhet-receivers","category-tubes","category-vfo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728","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=6728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11235,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728\/revisions\/11235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}