{"id":10389,"date":"2020-02-03T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/02\/03\/am-rally-report-great-contacts-on-40-am\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:23:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:23:02","slug":"am-rally-report-great-contacts-on-40-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/02\/03\/am-rally-report-great-contacts-on-40-am\/","title":{"rendered":"AM Rally Report &#8212; Great Contacts on 40 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KIudnIyIrtE\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>The AM Rally this past weekend was a lot of fun. I was reminded of how the guys that you talk to on AM are just so much more likely to be running interesting homebrew or vintage gear.<\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>First contact was with Howard VE2AED who has one of the most amazing antenna farms I have ever seen. Take a look: <\/b><br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/VE2AED\"><b>https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/VE2AED<\/b><\/a><br \/> <b>He also has an R-390 and a KWM2 in his shack. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Next I spoke to Robert W0VMC (Voice Modulated Carrier) out in Wisconsin. Robert is a homebrewer of AM gear with a Knack story that is very familiar: <a href=\"http:\/\/w0vmc.com\/\">http:\/\/w0vmc.com\/<\/a><\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Next up was W4GON. Joel was on the homebrew AM transmitter that we reported on back in 2017:<\/b><br \/> <b><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2017\/08\/thermatrons-al-fresco-w4gons-fb-hb-am.html\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2017\/08\/thermatrons-al-fresco-w4gons-fb-hb-am.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <b>Joel has completed his rig, adding a FB front panel. Here it is: <\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/W4GONFrontPanel.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/W4GONFrontPanel.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/W4GONBackView.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/W4GONBackView.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Then came the W1AW contact. See the video above. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Finally, I talked to Jack W9GT who was running a rig that must be unique on the amateur bands: A Federal 167 B Maritime transmitter. You can see this magnificent transmitter here: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/w9gt\"><b>https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/w9gt<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AM Rally this past weekend was a lot of fun. I was reminded of how the guys that you talk to on AM are just so much more likely to be running interesting homebrew or vintage gear. First contact was with Howard VE2AED who has one of the most amazing antenna farms I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/02\/03\/am-rally-report-great-contacts-on-40-am\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AM Rally Report &#8212; Great Contacts on 40 AM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,69,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-am","category-antennas","category-old-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10392,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389\/revisions\/10392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}