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I really like Dean’s description of the building process, especially where he describes the need to sit down with paper and pencil for some noodling. We see that in the picture above. Too often we hear from guys who seem to be looking for detailed, step-by-step instructions, and then get frustrated and stuck when this kind of detail isn’t available. Dean shows what to do in this situation: noodle! <\/b><\/div>\n

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Check out Dean’s blog post on this project: <\/b><\/div>\n

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Dean’s post made me think about the origin of the verb “to noodle.” We know it has its origins in music. Google provided this interesting explanation: <\/b><\/div>\n

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To noodle around on something, while it does make use of the noodle (head), may <\/span>derive from the regional German nudeln, to improvise a song<\/span>, or from the late-19th-century Scottish sense of noodling as humming a song to oneself. By 1937, to noodle was to fool around with notes to create music.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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We noodle around with parts and schematics to create rigs.<\/b> <\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really like Dean’s description of the building process, especially where he describes the need to sit down with paper and pencil for some noodling. We see that in the picture above. Too often we hear from guys who seem to be looking for detailed, step-by-step instructions, and then get frustrated and stuck when this … Continue reading “Dean KK4DAS Builds an EI9GQ 16 Watt RF Amplifier (and Noodles in the Process)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,232,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amplifier-theory","category-ireland","category-silverman-steve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}