{"id":1873,"date":"2014-12-02T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/12\/02\/manhattan-mighty-mite-rockin-the-big-apple-on-3-579\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:20:48","slug":"manhattan-mighty-mite-rockin-the-big-apple-on-3-579","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/12\/02\/manhattan-mighty-mite-rockin-the-big-apple-on-3-579\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Mighty Mite:  &#8220;Rockin&#8217; the Big Apple on 3.579&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/enCeF2cH6uk?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>Dave W2DAB got his Manhattan Mighty Mite oscillating nicely! Hooray! <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Check out Dave&#8217;s report on his Mighty Mite adventure: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b><a href=\"http:\/\/w2dab.bamford.net\/\">http:\/\/w2dab.bamford.net\/<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <b>So far we have sent out 20 colorburst crystals. Already we have two circuits oscillating (not counting Pete&#8217;s and mine). <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>CLA is on the march! <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>E-mail from Dave: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b>  <\/p>\n<div> <b><i>Dear Bill &#038; Pete:<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div> <b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div> <b><i>Thanks for all your help, I can joyfully announce the birth of my first Michigan Mighty Mite, Oscillating at the frequency of 3.579! Yes, Pete\u2019s sage advice to flip the coil over was a great help and also my good friend from Vermont (A Michiganian by birth ). OK, so Bill\u2026 you remember your most embarrassing moments in home-brew? Well, here\u2019s mostly what happened: I was reading the article I found online and somehow got 40 meters stuck in my head even though your colorburst was for 80 &#8211; So I build a 40 meter coil. When I realized my mistake I thought &#8211; well why not build two of these so I pulled out the Colorburst and put in a Norcal 7.040 and then built a new board with a new 80 coil oriented properly and the pic below is the one you see. Now I have two Mighty Mite\u2019s that work, how great is that.<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div> <b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div> <b><i>My next goal is to continue forward using Pete\u2019s Build Something Video\u2019s, so more fun to come.<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div> <b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div> <b><i>I will post a video on my blog of the 80 Meter Colorburst Michigan Mighty Mite uttering it\u2019s joyful tones, but for now I\u2019ve put a lovely photo at the bottom.<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div> <b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div> <b><i>Success is sweet when you hear the sounds of the beep!<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div> <b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div> <b><i>Cheers and 73 Gentlemen<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div> <b><i>Dave<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div> <b><i>W2DAB<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div> <b><i>(&#8220;Manhattan is more fun in Manhattan\u201d)<\/i><\/b><br \/> <strong><em><\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/w2dabmmm.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/w2dabmmm.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave W2DAB got his Manhattan Mighty Mite oscillating nicely! Hooray! Check out Dave&#8217;s report on his Mighty Mite adventure: http:\/\/w2dab.bamford.net\/ So far we have sent out 20 colorburst crystals. Already we have two circuits oscillating (not counting Pete&#8217;s and mine). CLA is on the march! E-mail from Dave: Dear Bill &#038; Pete: Thanks for all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/12\/02\/manhattan-mighty-mite-rockin-the-big-apple-on-3-579\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Manhattan Mighty Mite:  &#8220;Rockin&#8217; the Big Apple on 3.579&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,260,251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-michigan-mighty-mite","category-minimalist-computing","category-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","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=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}