{"id":8704,"date":"2015-07-09T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/09\/soldersmoke-dreams-and-nightmares\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T01:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:10:17","slug":"soldersmoke-dreams-and-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/09\/soldersmoke-dreams-and-nightmares\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Dreams (and Nightmares)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"> <strong><\/strong> <\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> <strong><\/strong> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Bryan2527sMMM.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Bryan2527sMMM.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> <strong><\/strong> <\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> <strong>Bill,<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> <strong>I&#8217;ve just listened to Solder Smoke episodes 168-170 and I&#8217;m following your advice. My Michigan Mighty Mite sits on my desk only lacking the variable capacitor. I was amazed that I had everything needed in my junk box! Including a 3.575611 crystal. <\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> <strong>Last night I dreamt that the incomplete breadboarded Mighty Mite was beckoning me. I walked over to the desk and I had the palpable sense that the Mighty Mite itself wanted to oscillate, as if by arranging the components in this way I created something alive. I touched the tank and it began oscillating by itself without the variable cap. The universe seemed complete in that sweet moment. <\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> <strong>When I awoke I attempted to replicate the event unsuccessfully. haha. I definitely need a variable capacitor&#8230;. <\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> <strong>Regards,<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> <strong>Bryan <\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> <strong>KV4ZS<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> <strong><\/strong> <\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div> <strong><\/strong> <\/div>\n<div> <strong>Bryan: You might be able to make your dream come true with a fixed value cap. Do you have something of about 150 picofards? Try that. It might work. Or do you have an old transistor radio that could sacrifice its tuning cap? <br \/> <\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> <strong>I have had similar homebrew dreams. Well, nightmares mostly. I dreamed that in a fit of frustration I took ALL the parts off the BITX 17 board. That was a scary one. I&#8217;ll cc Steve Silverman to see if he could help with the variable cap. <\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> <strong>73 Bill <\/strong><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill, I&#8217;ve just listened to Solder Smoke episodes 168-170 and I&#8217;m following your advice. My Michigan Mighty Mite sits on my desk only lacking the variable capacitor. I was amazed that I had everything needed in my junk box! Including a 3.575611 crystal. Last night I dreamt that the incomplete breadboarded Mighty Mite was beckoning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/09\/soldersmoke-dreams-and-nightmares\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SolderSmoke Dreams (and Nightmares)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-michigan-mighty-mite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704","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=8704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8706,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions\/8706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}