{"id":10997,"date":"2014-10-09T10:27:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T14:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10997"},"modified":"2014-10-09T10:29:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T14:29:19","slug":"building-the-ozark-patrol-regenerative-receiver-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/building-the-ozark-patrol-regenerative-receiver-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Building the Ozark Patrol regenerative receiver kit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ozark-Patrol-In-Progress\"<\/a>Last week, I received the Ozark Patrol regenerative receiver kit<\/a>\u00a0that I had only ordered a few days prior. I was so eager to get started on the build, that I read the instructions, lined a cookie sheet with aluminum foil and began placing the parts on the board within an hour of bringing the package home from the post office!<\/p>\n

This was my first time building a “Pittsburg” type kit, where through hole components are surface-mounted on soldering pads.\u00a0It’s a brilliant technique which is very forgiving if the kit builder\u00a0accidentally mounts the wrong part or mounts a component with the incorrect orientation.<\/p>\n

I had hoped to have the kit finished the following day, but other priorities took precedence: I’ve been preparing for my presentation tomorrow at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute<\/a>, preparing a shortwave radio buyer’s guide for the November issue of The Spectrum Monitor magazine<\/a>,\u00a0and putting together the results of the Virtual Radio Challenge II<\/a>\u00a0(which will be published early next week). Fortunately,\u00a0I love<\/em> doing this stuff in my spare time!<\/p>\n

I’m eager to pick the Ozark back up early next week and finish the build. It’s become somewhat of a dangling carrot–a reward\u00a0for\u00a0finishing other projects\u00a0in advance. I can’t wait to hear this simple regen receiver come to life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, I received the Ozark Patrol regenerative receiver kit\u00a0that I had only ordered a few days prior. I was so eager to get started on the build, that I read the instructions, lined a cookie sheet with aluminum foil and began placing the parts on the board within an hour of bringing the package […]<\/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":[344,3,43],"tags":[3272,3273],"class_list":["post-10997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kits","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-ozark-patrol","tag-ozark-patrol-regenerative-receiver-kit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2Rn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10908,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/the-ozark-patrol-regenerative-receiver-kit\/","url_meta":{"origin":10997,"position":0},"title":"The Ozark Patrol regenerative receiver kit","author":"Thomas","date":"September 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Just learned that David Cripe (NM0S) has a new kit for sale: the Ozark Patrol regenerative receiver kit. 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