{"id":9985,"date":"2009-06-16T04:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/06\/16\/gregorian-chants-on-a-crystal-radio\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:38:56","slug":"gregorian-chants-on-a-crystal-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/06\/16\/gregorian-chants-on-a-crystal-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregorian Chants on a Crystal Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEikZ9vinGAAO05fPK9-JuV4XjPafO37eY2j3bK5BIxeXgTYqCXW1GvmdG94wcMUMYjgAE4HyFMh_EtuKvUbMXs7B1feLLJ9gI3-gNz2yvXjAQyiheBBlox4uDBIgIyoD6550Jhig1-yAys\/s1600-h\/800px-Vatikanische_Gaerten_Museen_Rom.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 196px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/800px-Vatikanische_Gaerten_Museen_Rom.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347778422031278050\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Last week I was telling Billy about crystal radios, and I followed-up by digging up the one we built in London. I don&#8217;t have my really good, HI-Z headphones, but even with fairly LO-Z cans, I could pull Vatican Radio&#8217;s 1530 kHz signal out of the ether using just a Germanium diode, a coil, a variable cap, and my all-purpose end-fed wire antenna.<br \/> I live very close to Vatican City (see above), but I think their AM transmitter is out of town, to the North of Rome. I visited the Wiki on Vatican Radio. Very interesting. Turns out that the Jesuits run the radio stations. Go here for a virtual tour:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vaticanradio.org\/museo_tecnico\/it\/gal_fot_24.asp\">http:\/\/www.vaticanradio.org\/museo_tecnico\/it\/gal_fot_24.asp<\/a><br \/> It took me a few minutes to hook up the 4 parts of my crystal receiver; it seemed kind of fitting (and a bit eerie) to be rewarded with the faint sound of Gregorian chants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was telling Billy about crystal radios, and I followed-up by digging up the one we built in London. I don&#8217;t have my really good, HI-Z headphones, but even with fairly LO-Z cans, I could pull Vatican Radio&#8217;s 1530 kHz signal out of the ether using just a Germanium diode, a coil, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/06\/16\/gregorian-chants-on-a-crystal-radio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gregorian Chants on a Crystal Radio&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,528],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crystal-radio","category-vatican-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9985","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=9985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9987,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9985\/revisions\/9987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}