{"id":8967,"date":"2011-09-15T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/09\/15\/9-volt-superhet-with-russian-sputnik-tubes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T01:41:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:41:49","slug":"9-volt-superhet-with-russian-sputnik-tubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/09\/15\/9-volt-superhet-with-russian-sputnik-tubes\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Volt Superhet with Russian Sputnik Tubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Sputnik_9V_Tube_Radio_Speaker_Charger.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Sputnik_9V_Tube_Radio_Speaker_Charger.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652514911085645890\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Wow! Now that&#8217;s what I call a Manhattan breadboard! Joe Sousa has <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radiomuseum.org\/forum\/sputnik_9v_superheterodyne_tube_radio.html\">an excellent article<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> on a broadcast band superhet that he built with Russian rod-type tubes, the same kind of tubes that flew in Sputnik. <\/span><br \/><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radiomuseum.org\/forum\/sputnik_9v_superheterodyne_tube_radio.html\">http:\/\/www.radiomuseum.org\/forum\/sputnik_9v_superheterodyne_tube_radio.html<\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Lots of other great homebrew projects on this site also. Thanks to Bob, WA1EDJ, for alerting us to this. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Joe&#8217;s research may be of use to those radio fiends among us who are feverishly building their Sputnik transmitters. October 4 is almost upon us! Onward Fellow Travelers! <\/span><br \/><\/span><br \/>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>Wow! Now that&#8217;s what I call a Manhattan breadboard! Joe Sousa has an excellent article on a broadcast band superhet that he built with Russian rod-type tubes, the same kind of tubes that flew in Sputnik. http:\/\/www.radiomuseum.org\/forum\/sputnik_9v_superheterodyne_tube_radio.htmlLots of other great homebrew projects on this site also. Thanks to Bob, WA1EDJ, for alerting us to this. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/09\/15\/9-volt-superhet-with-russian-sputnik-tubes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;9 Volt Superhet with Russian Sputnik Tubes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,96,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radio-history","category-russia","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8967","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=8967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8969,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8967\/revisions\/8969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}