{"id":7783,"date":"2011-08-15T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/15\/bike-radio-ii\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:29:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:29:49","slug":"bike-radio-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/15\/bike-radio-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike Radio II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/amfig1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 170px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/amfig1.gif\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5641030933668433778\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Thanks for all the suggestions on the bike radio. I googled around a bit and found a schematic that seems very similar to the little receiver I&#8217;m working with. I almost certainly would be better off starting anew (perhaps keeping the AF circuitry). But it is interesting to see how a simple AM receiver works. That first transistor is an autodyne circuit &#8212; both a mixer and a oscillator. <\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Our Book Store: <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for all the suggestions on the bike radio. I googled around a bit and found a schematic that seems very similar to the little receiver I&#8217;m working with. I almost certainly would be better off starting anew (perhaps keeping the AF circuitry). But it is interesting to see how a simple AM receiver works. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/15\/bike-radio-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bike Radio II&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bicycle","category-minimalist-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783","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=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7785,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions\/7785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}