I had been getting back into shortwave listening using refurbished Hallicrafters S-38E receivers. When the COVID -19 crisis hit I decided to use some of the time to homebrew a superhet receiver for the 31 meter band (9.4-10 MHz) using only parts on-hand in my ham radio shack. The receiver -- I call it the Q-31 -- is a single conversion superhet using 455 kHz as the intermediate frequency. IF selectivity is provided by a single Murata 10 kHz ceramic filter. The main tuning capacitor is a magnificent mechanical creation salvaged out of an old Galaxy V ham transceiver; I have left the capacitor visible. The oscillator coil come out of an old 1930s-era English homebrew receiver. The coil was made by Eddystone; it probably survived the WWII bombing raids on Britain. Individual stages are built into Altoids sized cans. The results are spectacular -- with the Q-31 I listen to music and news from all around the world. Jazz sounds especially good on a homebrew shortwave receiver.