{"id":10945,"date":"2014-09-29T11:29:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T15:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10945"},"modified":"2014-09-29T11:29:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T15:29:09","slug":"bill-solves-the-cri-echo-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/bill-solves-the-cri-echo-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill solves the CRI echo mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Earth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10863\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Earth.jpg\" alt=\"Earth\" width=\"640\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Earth.jpg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Earth-300x103.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, <a title=\"Hearing echoes on China Radio International\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/hearing-echoes-on-china-radio-international\/\" target=\"_blank\">I posted an article about Bill Meara<\/a> (producer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SolderSmoke Podcast<\/a>)\u00a0who was hearing audio echoes on his home brew regenerative receiver.<\/p>\n<p>Bill has now solved this mystery (hint: it&#8217;s all about\u00a0the receiver):<br \/>\n<a title=\"Soldersmoke\" href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2014\/09\/radio-china-international-echo-mystery.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2014\/09\/radio-china-international-echo-mystery.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I posted an article about Bill Meara (producer of the SolderSmoke Podcast)\u00a0who was hearing audio echoes on his home brew regenerative receiver. Bill has now solved this mystery (hint: it&#8217;s all about\u00a0the receiver): http:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2014\/09\/radio-china-international-echo-mystery.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3,26,43],"tags":[3254,145,3252,1031,3253,412,3255,2232],"class_list":["post-10945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bill-meara","tag-dx","tag-dx-echoes","tag-dxing","tag-echoes","tag-propagation","tag-soldersmoke","tag-speed-of-light"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2Qx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10861,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/hearing-echoes-on-china-radio-international\/","url_meta":{"origin":10945,"position":0},"title":"Hearing echoes on China Radio International","author":"Thomas","date":"September 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Bill Meara, producer of the popular SolderSmoke Podcast,\u00a0recently recorded audio echoes on a couple of his home brew regenerative receivers. \u00a0Bill\u00a0posted the following video, of his regen receiver tuned to China Radio International: After Bill\u00a0measured the echo delay at .133 seconds, he believes one possibility is that they\u00a0originate from a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Earth","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Earth.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Earth.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Earth.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":59859,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/email-prompts-bill-to-pull-his-regenerative-receiver-off-the-shelf\/","url_meta":{"origin":10945,"position":1},"title":"Email prompts Bill to pull his regenerative receiver off the shelf!","author":"Thomas","date":"May 29, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor, Bill Meara who shares\u00a0the following article from the excellent SolderSmoke Podcast blog: 2014 \"Off the Shelf\" Regen Comes Off the Shelf (Two Videos) https:\/\/youtu.be\/Qj5DE2RJ7aY Walter KA4KXX spotted an error in the schematic of my 2014 \"Off the Shelf\" regen receiver: The source resistor on the MPF-102\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/Qj5DE2RJ7aY\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":58109,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/soldersmoke-mattia-zamanas-amazing-direct-conversion-receiver\/","url_meta":{"origin":10945,"position":2},"title":"Soldersmoke: Mattia Zamana&#8217;s Amazing Direct Conversion Receiver","author":"Thomas","date":"October 29, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and Soldersmoke host, Bill Meara, who shares the following from the Soldersmoke blog: Mattia Zamana's Amazing Direct Conversion Receiver https:\/\/youtu.be\/mE3klHb4w7k?si=a2FSD2hUEgorxO2J Thanks to Ed KC8SBV for sending me this awesome video. 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