{"id":1994,"date":"2022-02-27T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/02\/27\/vk3hns-amazing-summit-prowler-9-homebrew-transceiver-a-masterpiece-of-miniaturization-video\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:00","slug":"vk3hns-amazing-summit-prowler-9-homebrew-transceiver-a-masterpiece-of-miniaturization-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/02\/27\/vk3hns-amazing-summit-prowler-9-homebrew-transceiver-a-masterpiece-of-miniaturization-video\/","title":{"rendered":"VK3HN&#8217;s Amazing Summit Prowler 9 Homebrew Transceiver &#8211; A Masterpiece of Miniaturization (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J70K973QBmQ?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>I was wondering what Paul VK3HN was up to. Now we know: the Summit Prowler 9 transceiver. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>This is yet another amazing rig by Paul, with <a href=\"https:\/\/vk3hn.wordpress.com\/2021\/02\/27\/sp-9-a-compact-five-band-ssb-cw-qrp-transceiver\/\">GREAT documentation<\/a>. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I was impressed by those bandpass filters. I will try to do something similarly robust on my 17\/12 rig. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Paul&#8217;s miniaturization of this rig is really astonishing. I would go nuts trying to keep it this small. I just couldn&#8217;t do it. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Look closely at the boards he uses. They look like printed circuit boards, but with all the components and all the soldering on one side. This is very smart &#8212; this makes it easier to troubleshoot and to change components. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I was glad to see at least one NE-602 in there. FB. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>The video is above. Check out Paul&#8217;s blog for more info: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/vk3hn.wordpress.com\/2021\/02\/27\/sp-9-a-compact-five-band-ssb-cw-qrp-transceiver\/\"><b>https:\/\/vk3hn.wordpress.com\/2021\/02\/27\/sp-9-a-compact-five-band-ssb-cw-qrp-transceiver\/ <\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Thanks Paul!<\/b> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering what Paul VK3HN was up to. Now we know: the Summit Prowler 9 transceiver. This is yet another amazing rig by Paul, with GREAT documentation. I was impressed by those bandpass filters. I will try to do something similarly robust on my 17\/12 rig. Paul&#8217;s miniaturization of this rig is really astonishing. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/02\/27\/vk3hns-amazing-summit-prowler-9-homebrew-transceiver-a-masterpiece-of-miniaturization-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VK3HN&#8217;s Amazing Summit Prowler 9 Homebrew Transceiver &#8211; A Masterpiece of Miniaturization (VIDEO)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,116,324,23,300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-cw","category-sota","category-ssb","category-taylor-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","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=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11411,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/11411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}