{"id":27371,"date":"2017-07-30T09:28:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T13:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=27371"},"modified":"2017-07-30T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T13:28:09","slug":"eds-homebrew-fruitcake-tin-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/eds-homebrew-fruitcake-tin-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed&#8217;s Homebrew Fruitcake Tin Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0024-e1501416865880.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27370\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0024-e1501416865880.jpg\" alt=\"Fruit Cake Tin Radio\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ed\u00a0Ganshirt, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I had an old car radio from the 1940&#8217;s I salvaged the parts from, and a rudimentary schematic to build by. I decided to re-assemble in the container I stowed away the parts in. Nothing special just another AM broadcast radio in an unusual cabinet (fruitcake tin.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love it, Ed! It&#8217;s like a broadcast band version of Rex&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qrpme.com\/?p=TUNAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuna Tin QRP radios<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>It must have been a challenge to mount all of the components on that tin. \u00a0So how does she play?<\/p>\n<p><em>Post<\/em> readers: please comment and consider sharing your homebrew project!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ed\u00a0Ganshirt, who writes: I had an old car radio from the 1940&#8217;s I salvaged the parts from, and a rudimentary schematic to build by. I decided to re-assemble in the container I stowed away the parts in. Nothing special just another AM broadcast radio in an unusual cabinet (fruitcake [&hellip;]<\/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":[373,3,305,26],"tags":[4097,4800,6383,4239,4358,4081],"class_list":["post-27371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radios","tag-am","tag-edward-ganshirt","tag-fruitcake-tin-radio","tag-home-brew-receiver","tag-homebrew","tag-radios"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-77t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13869,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/a-three-transistor-homebrew-shortwave-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":27371,"position":0},"title":"A three transistor homebrew shortwave radio","author":"Thomas","date":"July 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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