{"id":37606,"date":"2025-03-05T14:17:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=37606"},"modified":"2025-05-09T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:00:12","slug":"7-april-2025-40m-on-a-glue-stick-by-nick-wood-m0ntv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/tonight-at-eight-archive\/2025\/03\/05\/7-april-2025-40m-on-a-glue-stick-by-nick-wood-m0ntv\/","title":{"rendered":"7 April 2025 &#8211; 40m on a glue stick by Nick Wood, M0NTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ktFWDii770I?si=ed3jVTjzZDXXr-oY&amp;start=381\" width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><strong>The presentation<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">April\u2019s <em>Tonight@8<\/em> features Nick Wood, M0NTV with his presentation <em>40m On A Glue Stick: A Homebrew, All-analogue, All-discrete Direct Conversion Receiver<\/em>. 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2014and then photos of the actual build\u2014of 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.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>About Nick<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Nick \u2018The Vic\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<p>He is a keen advocate of modular building\u2014breaking large, complex projects down into smaller, achievable, bite-sized chunks. He runs a popular YouTube channel called <em>M0NTV Homebrewing<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p>When not building radios\u2014or, in his words, doing his real job\u2014he enjoys walking on the beach, playing funky bass guitar, cool jazz and hot curries&#8230; but not necessarily in that order!<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Find out more<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsgbshop.org\/acatalog\/Homebrew-Cookbook-1190.html#SID=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Homebrew Cookbook<\/strong><\/a> by Eamon Skelton, EI9GQ<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsgbshop.org\/acatalog\/Weekend-Projects-32.html#SID=31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Weekend Projects for the Radio Amateur<\/strong><\/a> by George Brown, MW5ACN<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsgbshop.org\/acatalog\/QRP-Scrapbook-1893.html#SID=31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>QRP Scrapbook, produced in co-operation between the RSGB and the G-QRP Club<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsgbshop.org\/acatalog\/International-QRP-Collection-204.html#SID=9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>International QRP Collection<\/strong><\/a>, compiled and edited by Rev. George Dobbs, G3RJV and Steve Telenius-Lowe, 9M6DXX<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Soldersmoke Blog <\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.n6qw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Pete Juliano\u2019s website<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/qrp-labs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Hans Summers\u2019 QRP Labs website <\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vu2ese.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ashhar Farhan\u2019s website<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/M0NTVHomebrewing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>M0NTV Homebrewing YouTube channel<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presentation April\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tonight-at-eight-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37606"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39594,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37606\/revisions\/39594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}