{"id":8240,"date":"2009-01-26T06:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/01\/26\/minimalist-radio-the-et-1-and-the-feter\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:17:54","slug":"minimalist-radio-the-et-1-and-the-feter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/01\/26\/minimalist-radio-the-et-1-and-the-feter\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimalist Radio:  The ET-1 and the FETer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ET1082.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 305px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ET1082.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295481723625019938\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>SPRAT # 137 (Winter 2008-2009) has a number of great articles on minimalist radio &#8212; very simple rigs with low parts counts. Roger G3XBM has a very nice re-make of the ET-1, first introduced by Glen Yingling W2UW in SPRAT 108. I remembered Glen&#8217;s article &#8212; I always wanted to try it. The ET-1 has just one active device: an MPF-102 FET. And it is a transceiver.<br \/>The schematic of the ET-1 appears above. I started building mine yesterday. Got the receiver done and &#8212; WOW! &#8212; heard some 80 meter signals this morning. More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPRAT # 137 (Winter 2008-2009) has a number of great articles on minimalist radio &#8212; very simple rigs with low parts counts. Roger G3XBM has a very nice re-make of the ET-1, first introduced by Glen Yingling W2UW in SPRAT 108. I remembered Glen&#8217;s article &#8212; I always wanted to try it. The ET-1 has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/01\/26\/minimalist-radio-the-et-1-and-the-feter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Minimalist Radio:  The ET-1 and the FETer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-minimalist-radio","category-sprat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240","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=8240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8242,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240\/revisions\/8242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}