{"id":5526,"date":"2013-02-02T17:21:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T21:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5526"},"modified":"2013-02-02T17:21:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T21:21:05","slug":"making-a-transistor-radio-by-george-dobbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/making-a-transistor-radio-by-george-dobbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Making A Transistor Radio by George Dobbs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A sample illustration from “Making a Transistor Radio”<\/p><\/div>\n

Those of you who are ham radio operators (especially QRPers) are familiar with the name George Dobbs (G3RJV)<\/a>. In 1972, Reverend\u00a0Dobbs wrote a book called, Making A Transistor Radio <\/em>and now it’s available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Making A Transistor Radio<\/em>\u00a0is a clear, simple, step-by-step guide to building your own transistor radio. In each stage of the process you’re rewarded with a working radio. In addition, you’ll learn about all of the stages of a working receiver.<\/p>\n

Perhaps what I love best about this book<\/a>–besides the fact that is resembles the mountains of electronics books I poured through in my youth–are the illustrations. \u00a0Each illustration describes exactly<\/em> how each component of the radio should be built, leaving nothing to be pondered.<\/p>\n

If you’ve ever wanted to build your own radio, from scratch, this is a great place to start<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Eric, for sending this link!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those of you who are ham radio operators (especially QRPers) are familiar with the name George Dobbs (G3RJV). In 1972, Reverend\u00a0Dobbs wrote a book called, Making A Transistor Radio and now it’s available online. Making A Transistor Radio\u00a0is a clear, simple, step-by-step guide to building your own transistor radio. In each stage of the process […]<\/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":[8,251,344,305,26],"tags":[1660,1659,1661,1658],"class_list":["post-5526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-books","category-kits","category-nostalgia","category-radios","tag-book","tag-george-dobbs-g3rjv","tag-how-to-make-a-radio","tag-making-a-transistor-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1r8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20915,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/arvin-model-68r05-johns-1967-transistor-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":5526,"position":0},"title":"Arvin Model 68R05: John’s 1967 transistor radio","author":"Thomas","date":"August 29, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to John Harper (AE5X) who shares the following in reply to our post about transistor radios: Attached is a pic of a like-new transistor radio from 1967 [see above]. 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