{"id":13869,"date":"2015-07-10T08:05:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T12:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=13869"},"modified":"2015-07-10T08:12:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T12:12:54","slug":"a-three-transistor-homebrew-shortwave-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/a-three-transistor-homebrew-shortwave-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"A three transistor homebrew shortwave radio"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Richard Langley, writes:<\/p>\n

Came across this site on building a 3-transistor shortwave radio similar to the kit offered by Radio Shack years ago:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.netzener.net\/index.php\/8-project-articles\/5-3-transistor-short-wave-radio<\/a><\/p>\n

It was featured on the Instructables site:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Three-Transistor-Short-Wave-Radio\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Very cool! \u00a0Thanks for sharing this, Richard.<\/p>\n

When I have a little time, I’ll go through my parts box and see how many of these components I already have. The author also supplies an excellent assembly manual for download and print<\/a>. It would be fantastic if someone would kit up the parts list and offer it\u00a0as a package.\u00a0Regardless, this will\u00a0make for a fun\u00a0winter project!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SWLing Post contributor, Richard Langley, writes: Came across this site on building a 3-transistor shortwave radio similar to the kit offered by Radio Shack years ago: http:\/\/www.netzener.net\/index.php\/8-project-articles\/5-3-transistor-short-wave-radio It was featured on the Instructables site: http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Three-Transistor-Short-Wave-Radio\/ Very cool! \u00a0Thanks for sharing this, Richard. When I have a little time, I’ll go through my parts box and […]<\/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":[627,344,3,26,43],"tags":[3971,2169,3970,3973,3972],"class_list":["post-13869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-kits","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-electronic-project-kit-28-110","tag-home-brew","tag-homebrew-shortwave","tag-radioshack-28-110","tag-radioshack-shortwave-kit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3BH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13431,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/james-vintage-transistor-radio-collection\/","url_meta":{"origin":13869,"position":0},"title":"James’ vintage transistor radio collection","author":"Thomas","date":"June 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In response to my recent post about the vintage\u00a0Arvin 68R58 transistor radio, SWLing Post reader, James Patterson, has shared photos of his collection in New Zealand. 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