{"id":4538,"date":"2014-10-06T21:16:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T02:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2014-10-06T21:16:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T02:16:04","slug":"a-little-more-radio-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=4538","title":{"rendered":"A little more radio project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Saturday, 4 miles;\u00a0 today 3.4 miles]<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend I worked on two radio projects.<\/p>\n<p>The first was my VHF FM loop antenna.\u00a0 I have created a capacitor out of 1\/8&#8243; lexan plastic and the thing seems to be resonant at the right frequency, or close.\u00a0 I need to work on the feed system next.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have more on that later.<\/p>\n<p>I also did a lash-up of my new DDS VFO with an NE602 mixer chip and\u00a0 the Hi Per Mite audio amp and filter to make a little toy receiver.\u00a0 I played around with that quite a bit on Sunday, trying to figure out how to join it to the antenna.\u00a0 I was able to hear a few stations.\u00a0 That was a kick!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?attachment_id=4539\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4539\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4539\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_20141005_092520_134-700x393.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20141005_092520_134\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_20141005_092520_134-700x393.jpg 700w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_20141005_092520_134-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Saturday, 4 miles;\u00a0 today 3.4 miles] Over the weekend I worked on two radio projects. The first was my VHF FM loop antenna.\u00a0 I have created a capacitor out of 1\/8&#8243; lexan plastic and the thing seems to be resonant at the right frequency, or close.\u00a0 I need to work on the feed system next.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4540,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions\/4540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}