{"id":89,"date":"2014-06-25T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T09:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vk2sja.org\/piffle\/?p=89"},"modified":"2021-01-16T23:20:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T23:20:53","slug":"my-minima-build-finally-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vk2sja.org\/piffle\/2014\/06\/25\/my-minima-build-finally-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"My Minima build finally starts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well I’ve been dragging the chain a bit. Delaying the start of my Minima build until I could get some of my other projects squared away. But finally I have started.<\/p>\n

Now I just know that this will probably upset someone who started their Radio career many years ago by listening to a Realistic DX-100 HF receiver. So I’ll say sorry up front. Sorry.<\/p>\n

But I’ve had this Realistic DX-100 kicking around for some time. It is a *very* basic HF receiver. I picked it up at a second hand store and it had a fault on one band that I could never be bothered to try and fix. Good looking radio, terrible receiver! Time passed and I came across the BitX design and I thought that this radio would make an excellent donor case for a BitX project. As it had both a large tuning knob and a fine tune control. I was just about to start building a BitX when Farhan released the design of the Minima.<\/p>\n

I looked at the Realistic DX-100 with new ‘eyes’ and that dial window looked just about perfect for a LCD display. And it is!<\/p>\n

So now with a quick change of direction this old receiver is destined to become a Minima!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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