{"id":7451,"date":"2021-05-03T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/05\/03\/a-new-michigan-mighty-mite-oscillates-in-northern-virginia\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:56:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:56:45","slug":"a-new-michigan-mighty-mite-oscillates-in-northern-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/05\/03\/a-new-michigan-mighty-mite-oscillates-in-northern-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Michigan Mighty Mite Oscillates in Northern Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JackNG2E.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1536\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JackNG2E.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>We are pleased to report that OM Jack, NG2E, has successfully built a Michigan Mighty Mite transmitter, and has experienced JOO (the joy of oscillation). You can see Jack&#8217;s prototype in the video below: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/omhqdliGFzE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Jack has his eye on more ambitious homebrew projects, but is wisely taking a step-by-step approach. He described his plans this way: <\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 15px;\"><b>Capture this MMM into a semi-permanent design: ie, perf board.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 15px;\"><b>Measure performance. What does the carrier wave look like on a scope? <\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 15px;\"><b>Build a low-pass filter.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 15px;\"><b>Can I amplify the signal? Maybe add an amplifier stage or two. Transistor? <\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 15px;\"><b>Next, let&#8217;s look at receivers. Pete &#038; Bill recommend that I build a Direct Conversion receiver. I know Peter Parker (VK3YE) has <a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/vk3ye.com\/projects\/proj80dir.htm&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1620142183004000&#038;usg=AFQjCNE2xClta7SMkx6Y_YchEfpP8KW2SQ\" href=\"https:\/\/vk3ye.com\/projects\/proj80dir.htm\" style=\"color: #1155cc;\" target=\"_blank\">a simplified version<\/a>. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div><br style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to report that OM Jack, NG2E, has successfully built a Michigan Mighty Mite transmitter, and has experienced JOO (the joy of oscillation). You can see Jack&#8217;s prototype in the video below: Jack has his eye on more ambitious homebrew projects, but is wisely taking a step-by-step approach. He described his plans this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/05\/03\/a-new-michigan-mighty-mite-oscillates-in-northern-virginia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A New Michigan Mighty Mite Oscillates in Northern Virginia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-direct-conversion","category-michigan-mighty-mite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451","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=7451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7453,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451\/revisions\/7453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}