{"id":203,"date":"2023-04-04T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/04\/04\/w2uos-michigan-mighty-mite-made-a-contact\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:25","slug":"w2uos-michigan-mighty-mite-made-a-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/04\/04\/w2uos-michigan-mighty-mite-made-a-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"W2UO’s Michigan Mighty Mite — Made a Contact!"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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Hi Bill,<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

I found SolderSmoke about six months ago, and it’s quickly become one of my favorite podcasts.<\/span>

I’ve been a ham since I was 11, but never tried my hand at homebrewing anything. I’ve always heard how hard it would be, and how a project like a SSB transmitter is just too far out of reach.<\/span>

You and Pete are inspirational, so I set out to build a simple starter project, the venerable Michigan Mighty Mite. However not just any mighty mite, a usable one, not just a proof of concept. One intended to sit on a desk and look good doing it. Complete with built in low pass filter, tx\/rx switching, and an internal dummy load.<\/span>

I don’t know if I accomplished all that, but I did make a contact on it this afternoon. Next logical step I suppose will be to build a DC receiver to sit next to it.<\/span>

Please find pictures attached, I’ve learned a lot about what not to do with project, so criticism is welcome.<\/span>

73!<\/span>
-Jim W2UO<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n


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Wow Jim, that is really wonderful. Congratulations on the build. I’ve built many of them, but I don’t think I ever made a contact with a MMM. FB. <\/b><\/div>\n

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It looks great to me! Indeed, you should do a Direct Conversion receiver next. Maybe do a receiver for 40, then do a version of the MMM for that same band. Then you could <\/b><\/div>\n
make a completely homebrew QSO. I did this recently on 40: https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/first-qso-with-high-school-receiver-100.html<\/a> It was a real hoot! <\/b><\/div>\n

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Our friend Dean also built a MMM as his first project: https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2019\/12\/dean-kk4das-puts-michigan-mighty-mite.html<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n

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Please keep us posted on your progress. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Again, congratulations! 73 Bill N2CQR<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Bill, I found SolderSmoke about six months ago, and it’s quickly become one of my favorite podcasts.I’ve been a ham since I was 11, but never tried my hand at homebrewing anything. I’ve always heard how hard it would be, and how a project like a SSB transmitter is just too far out of … Continue reading “W2UO’s Michigan Mighty Mite — Made a Contact!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,24,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-direct-conversion","category-michigan-mighty-mite","category-souleles-dean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","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=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}