{"id":6893,"date":"2020-06-13T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T07:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/06\/13\/jerrys-sproutie-a-short-wave-receiver-and-a-limerick-by-jerry-ki4io\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:54:35","slug":"jerrys-sproutie-a-short-wave-receiver-and-a-limerick-by-jerry-ki4io","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/06\/13\/jerrys-sproutie-a-short-wave-receiver-and-a-limerick-by-jerry-ki4io\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry’s Sproutie: A Short Wave Receiver (and a Limerick) by Jerry KI4IO"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jerry KI4IO is a really talented homebrewer; I’ve called him the Wizard of Warrenton: <\/b><\/div>\n
https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/the-wizard-of-warrenton-jerry-ki4io.html<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n
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https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/fdim-interview-with-ki4io-homebrew.html<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n

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Warrenton Va. is not far from me (and is the birthplace of Cappucio the Wonder Dog). Once we are done with the pandemic I hope that Jerry and I can get together to talk about homebrew radio. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Like me, Jerry recently turned his attention to the shortwave broadcast bands. He too went the homebrew route, but his receiver is a regen. It is based on the Sproutie by Dave AA7EE. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Here is Jerry’s article detailing the project and the results: <\/b><\/div>\n

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http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/KI4IORX2.pdf<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n
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Jerry had been scheduled to talk about antenna tuners at FDIM this year, but the pandemic caused the event to be canceled. He shared with me a Limerick that he was going to include in the presentation. Obviously we have similar feelings about automatic antenna tuners. <\/b><\/div>\n

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In days of old<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
when hams we bold<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
and BALUNs weren’t invented<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
We adjusted our C<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
and fiddled with L<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
and reflected power was prevented<\/span><\/b>

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KI4IO in his shack Feb 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Jerry KI4IO is a really talented homebrewer; I’ve called him the Wizard of Warrenton: https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/the-wizard-of-warrenton-jerry-ki4io.html and https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/fdim-interview-with-ki4io-homebrew.html Warrenton Va. is not far from me (and is the birthplace of Cappucio the Wonder Dog). Once we are done with the pandemic I hope that Jerry and I can get together to talk about homebrew radio. Like … Continue reading “Jerry’s Sproutie: A Short Wave Receiver (and a Limerick) by Jerry KI4IO”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,194,270,148,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antennas","category-poetry","category-quarantine","category-regens","category-short-wave-listening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893","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=6893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6897,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893\/revisions\/6897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}