{"id":1942,"date":"2014-01-16T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/01\/16\/farhans-new-design-a-general-coverage-transceiver-the-minima\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:28:18","slug":"farhans-new-design-a-general-coverage-transceiver-the-minima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/01\/16\/farhans-new-design-a-general-coverage-transceiver-the-minima\/","title":{"rendered":"Farhan&#8217;s New Design: A General Coverage Transceiver: The Minima!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/minimainsidelores.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\/01\/minimainsidelores.jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong>The homebrew phone QRP community has been waiting anxiously for the unveiling of Farhan&#8217;s new design: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phonestack.com\/farhan\/minima.html\"><strong>The Minima.<\/strong><\/a><strong> It is a general coverage transceiver with many innovative circuit features. It has an Arduino in it and an Si570. Farhan&#8217;s write up of the design process and the construction of the prototypes is really interesting. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phonestack.com\/farhan\/minima.html\"><strong>http:\/\/www.phonestack.com\/farhan\/minima.html<\/strong><\/a><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>I&#8217;ve built FOUR JBOTs and TWO BITXs. I even built Farhan&#8217;s Subway Sandwich Straw signal generator. So even though I&#8217;ve been trying to keep my rigs all discrete, I know I will build this one too. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Three cheers for Ashhar Farhan! Viva La Minima! <\/strong><\/p>\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>The homebrew phone QRP community has been waiting anxiously for the unveiling of Farhan&#8217;s new design: The Minima. It is a general coverage transceiver with many innovative circuit features. It has an Arduino in it and an Si570. Farhan&#8217;s write up of the design process and the construction of the prototypes is really interesting. http:\/\/www.phonestack.com\/farhan\/minima.html &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/01\/16\/farhans-new-design-a-general-coverage-transceiver-the-minima\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Farhan&#8217;s New Design: A General Coverage Transceiver: The Minima!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,66,68,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arduino","category-farhan","category-india","category-ssb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","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=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/1944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}