{"id":9138,"date":"2013-01-11T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/il-fido-a-simple-receiver-from-italy\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:01:15","slug":"il-fido-a-simple-receiver-from-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/il-fido-a-simple-receiver-from-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Il Fido &#8212; A Simple Receiver from Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ilFido2.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ilFido2.png\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b>As part of a refresher course in Italian, I am reading a bunch of old radio magazines from Italy sent to me by Stephen. There are some really wonderful projects in these magazines and I feel compelled to share them with the SolderSmoke community. No full translations yet, but perhaps that would provide a good language learning opportunity. For now, just schematics and drawings (aren&#8217;t they beautiful?). <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>This one is a simple crystal receiver with one stage of AF amplification. It covers the AM broadcast band, the HF bands, and (apparently) VHF using a switch and three different coil\/capacitor combinations. You could make it a lot simpler by just building it for one band. Looks to me like a nice rig for an Altoid tin. <\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IFido1.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IFido1.png\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Screenshot.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Screenshot.png\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/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>As part of a refresher course in Italian, I am reading a bunch of old radio magazines from Italy sent to me by Stephen. There are some really wonderful projects in these magazines and I feel compelled to share them with the SolderSmoke community. No full translations yet, but perhaps that would provide a good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/il-fido-a-simple-receiver-from-italy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Il Fido &#8212; A Simple Receiver from Italy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,140,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crystal-radio","category-italy","category-magazines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138","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=9138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9141,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions\/9141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}