{"id":9247,"date":"2012-09-05T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/09\/05\/mates-for-mighty-midgets\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:11:51","slug":"mates-for-mighty-midgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/09\/05\/mates-for-mighty-midgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Mates for Mighty Midgets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span> Hi Bill,<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b> <\/p>\n


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Gosh, we haven’t exchanged e-mails for—<\/span><\/span>literally–<\/span><\/span><\/i>-years now…! You may recall me from those heady days of yore when we both worked on \/ built \/ modified \/ boast of our respective MFTMM receivers…<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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A good friend of mine—Bill, VE3CSK—is in the process of collecting parts for an HB receiver, & I’ve been trying to sell him on the idea of an MFTMM: I keep telling him it’s an excellent “foundation” receiver, & that it’ll prove to be much more than a toy, or pleasant diversion, if he leaves enough room on the chassis & the front panel for future mods. I think I may be finally winning him over: he’s asked me for the references to the rig, & has placed an order for a <\/span>National<\/i>-brand slide rule dial with a fellow Stateside!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Do you still have your receiver, Bill…? If so, do you have any nuggets of info that might be worth sharing re. it, that I could pass onto Bill…?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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I’ve since built yet another superhet here—in keeping with my interest in 1929-ish radios, I built this thing, & have been having a ball ever since: http:\/\/www.superhets.info\/page9.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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This rascal can REALLY<\/i> play—but it’s a <\/span>LOT<\/i><\/b> larger than my MFTMM rig!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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~73!~ de Eddy VE3CUI – VE3XZ<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n

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Hello Eddy! Great to hear from you. I like you FB page on the Super Hets. Beautiful. <\/span> <\/p>\n


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Yes, I still have my MMRX. Haven’t used it for a while, but I am thinking of putting it back in operation — I am now getting active on 75 and 40 AM, and it would be fun to use this RX. <\/div>\n

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Here is an idea: The 455 kc filter crystals are now un-obtanium. But I’m thinking that we could substitute some 455 kc ceramic filters, which are readily available.<\/div>\n

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I like the receiver. A lot. So far it is my only real tube HB project. Encourage your friend to give it a go! <\/div>\n

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Keep me posted! 73 Bill <\/div>\n

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Hi Bill, Gosh, we haven’t exchanged e-mails for—literally–-years now…! You may recall me from those heady days of yore when we both worked on \/ built \/ modified \/ boast of our respective MFTMM receivers… A good friend of mine—Bill, VE3CSK—is in the process of collecting parts for an HB receiver, & I’ve been trying … Continue reading “Mates for Mighty Midgets”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,262,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada","category-mccoy-lew","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247","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=9247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9249,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247\/revisions\/9249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}