{"id":10431,"date":"2013-01-10T00:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/10\/knack-story-ryans-rig\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:29:26","slug":"knack-story-ryans-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/10\/knack-story-ryans-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"Knack Story: Ryan’s Rig"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bill,<\/span>
<\/span>
… [I know] a young ham locally who suffers terribly from the<\/span>
affliction of the “knack”. Ryan, KJ6HBY, is 17, and an Extra class,<\/span>
who earned his DXCC in a year. He is a great builder, starting out<\/span>
building his first antenna a couple years ago by breaking apart an old<\/span>
washing machine motor and unwinding it for the wire. Along the way he<\/span>
has restored various rigs, i.e. HR10, S-38, IC707, etc and built a<\/span>
BTX17 (17 meter version of the BTX20). Enclosed is a couple photos of<\/span>
his latest creations. First, he hand carved a wood morse code key. It<\/span>
actually feels and works well. Now he has build a single tube xmtr,<\/span>
and after fussing with it, is pumping out 4 watts. Both of the kid’s<\/span>
folks are hams as well as his sister. I had an opportunity to visit<\/span>
his shack the other day. It’s a teenage ham’s dream and a mother’s<\/span>
nightmare. Racks floor to ceiling with radios! If anybody has the<\/span>
knack, Ryan does. Makes me think there is a future, we can sleep well<\/span>
tonight.<\/span>
73<\/span>
Mike Herr<\/span>
WA6ARA<\/span>
DM-15dp<\/span>
Home of The QRP Ranch<\/span> <\/p>\n

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Bill, … [I know] a young ham locally who suffers terribly from the affliction of the “knack”. Ryan, KJ6HBY, is 17, and an Extra class, who earned his DXCC in a year. He is a great builder, starting out building his first antenna a couple years ago by breaking apart an old washing machine motor … Continue reading “Knack Story: Ryan’s Rig”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,169,103,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cw","category-keyers","category-knack-stories","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10431","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=10431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10434,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10431\/revisions\/10434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}