{"id":12940,"date":"2015-04-10T09:12:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T13:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=12940"},"modified":"2015-04-10T09:39:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T13:39:38","slug":"new-franzis-shortwave-radio-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/new-franzis-shortwave-radio-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"New Franzis shortwave radio kit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FranzisKitRadio\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> reader,\u00a0Franz Miller, who writes:<\/p>\n

“I’ve pasted a link below to the webpage at Conrad in Germany for yet another Franzis radio kit; no idea how good it is, but it looks neato-retro to me.\u00a0 Covers longwave, medium, shortwave VHF, & UHF, allegedly.\u00a0 Price on Conrad’s website is around 69 Euros.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to view the new Franzis Radio Kit on Conrad’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I truly appreciate the reminder, too,\u00a0that I have a previous model Franzis kit<\/a> somewhere in storage that I need to unearth and build! I assume this new Franzis model also has a cardboard chassis.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>–Tomas adds the following comment:<\/p>\n

Here is a link to the Franzis site where there are several pictures and also a two minute video demonstrating the kit.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.franzis.de\/elektronik\/lernpakete-elektronik\/der-grosse-franzis-radiobaukasten#<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, for SW it only supports the 41-meter band.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post reader,\u00a0Franz Miller, who writes: “I’ve pasted a link below to the webpage at Conrad in Germany for yet another Franzis radio kit; no idea how good it is, but it looks neato-retro to me.\u00a0 Covers longwave, medium, shortwave VHF, & UHF, allegedly.\u00a0 Price on Conrad’s website is around 69 Euros.” […]<\/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":[344,836,3,43,1],"tags":[3766,346,4095],"class_list":["post-12940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kits","category-new-products","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-uncategorized","tag-der-grose-franzis-radiobaukasten","tag-franzis-radio-kit","tag-kits"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3mI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1017,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/cardboard-tube-radio-kit\/","url_meta":{"origin":12940,"position":0},"title":"Cardboard Tube Radio Kit","author":"Thomas","date":"December 21, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"While cruising Retro Thing, this cardboard tube radio kit caught my eye. 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