7 April 2025 – 40m on a glue stick by Nick Wood, M0NTV

| March 5, 2025

The presentation

April’s Tonight@8 features Nick Wood, M0NTV with his presentation 40m On A Glue Stick: A Homebrew, All-analogue, All-discrete Direct Conversion Receiver. Nick shows you how to use a regular glue stick housing in a rather novel way to form the basis of a variable tuning inductor in a homemade 40m receiver.

After a brief description of a direct conversion receiver and short technical explanation of how it works, Nick dives into four separate modules. Nick shows the schematic—and then photos of the actual build—of each stage, plus some test results. At the end, he strings it all together and webinar attendees are able to see and hear some video footage of how it sounds and what it can do.

About Nick

Nick ‘The Vic’ Wood, M0NTV is an ordained minister in the Methodist Church and a fully licensed radio amateur since November 2019. He has a lifelong fascination with radio and electronics, and an insatiable curiosity to discover how things work. His passion is for designing and building his own radio equipment, particularly SSB transceivers, and has just completed number six.

He is a keen advocate of modular building—breaking large, complex projects down into smaller, achievable, bite-sized chunks. He runs a popular YouTube channel called M0NTV Homebrewing where he gets to share his enthusiasm for scratch-building and to inspire others to have a go themselves. He is appreciated for his educational input and his knack of explaining complex theory in simple ways.

When not building radios—or, in his words, doing his real job—he enjoys walking on the beach, playing funky bass guitar, cool jazz and hot curries… but not necessarily in that order!

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