{"id":783,"date":"2025-01-23T00:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/01\/23\/a-tale-of-woe-from-mike-wu2d-plus-the-importance-of-band-noise\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:00:59","slug":"a-tale-of-woe-from-mike-wu2d-plus-the-importance-of-band-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/01\/23\/a-tale-of-woe-from-mike-wu2d-plus-the-importance-of-band-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Woe from Mike WU2D, PLUS:  The Importance of Band Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T_Mz9HljCys?si=nMsF0IfZYtAJkzpq?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>It was so cool to watch master homebrewer Mike WU2D candidly describe his error (tale of woe) made while building the Simple X Super receiver. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>It was also great to see his joy in hearing the band noise. Watch his glee as the noise jumps up when he connects the antenna. &#8220;That&#8217;s the good stuff!&#8221; Indeed it is. So many younger builders see noise &#8212; all noise &#8212; as a bug not a feature. Mike obviously sees it as a feature: Thunderstorms in Brazil! The weed-whacker down the street! Remants of the Big Bang! Hearing this stuff lets us know that the machine we have built is alive, and is inhaling the universe. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Thanks Mike. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T_Mz9HljCys\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T_Mz9HljCys<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was so cool to watch master homebrewer Mike WU2D candidly describe his error (tale of woe) made while building the Simple X Super receiver. It was also great to see his joy in hearing the band noise. Watch his glee as the noise jumps up when he connects the antenna. &#8220;That&#8217;s the good stuff!&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/01\/23\/a-tale-of-woe-from-mike-wu2d-plus-the-importance-of-band-noise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Tale of Woe from Mike WU2D, PLUS:  The Importance of Band Noise&#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":[121,223,57,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-murphy-mike-wu2d","category-noise","category-superhet-receivers","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","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=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11165,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/11165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}