{"id":2229,"date":"2020-04-27T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/04\/27\/listen-to-homebrew-to-homebrew-quarantine-contact-with-glenn-ku4no-on-his-37-year-old-homebrew-ssb-transceiver\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:55:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:55:58","slug":"listen-to-homebrew-to-homebrew-quarantine-contact-with-glenn-ku4no-on-his-37-year-old-homebrew-ssb-transceiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/04\/27\/listen-to-homebrew-to-homebrew-quarantine-contact-with-glenn-ku4no-on-his-37-year-old-homebrew-ssb-transceiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Homebrew-to-Homebrew Quarantine Contact with Glenn KU4NO on his 37 year-old Homebrew SSB Transceiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oQy71eT3Z2k\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>This was really amazing. I had been feeling guilty about not getting on the air much during quarantine. I mean, we have these airwaves and we have the gear, right? Shouldn&#8217;t we be more social, more friendly and get on the air more? I tried yesterday with marginal results (conditions were poor). I called CQ on 40 SSB this morning &#8212; nil, except for one grumpy guy who said I was splattering on his morning coffee clatch. Then I heard KU4NO calling CQ. I did not recognize the call. But when I told him I was on a homebrew transceiver, he matter-of-factly sad that he too was on a homebrew rig. When he started to describe it (see below), it all came back me. His is one of the most soulful of homebrew SSB rigs. And I realized that it may also be THE OLDEST HOMEBREW SSB RIG STILL IN USE IN THE WORLD. (If anyone knows of a homebrew SSB transceiver older than 37 years and still on the air, please let me know.) This was exactly the kind of contact that I needed. TRGHS. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Glenn put out a lot of homebrew wisdom. He said a lot of inspiring things. (He did also at one point talked about wanting to shoot his plasma TV, but that&#8217;s understandable.) So I recorded most of our contact. (I have his permission to put it on the web). <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>You can listen to our contact via the YouTube video above. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>For my report on an earlier contact with Glenn click here: <\/b><br \/> <b><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/a-rig-with-maximum-soul-5-band.html\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/a-rig-with-maximum-soul-5-band.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <b>So, it is worth it to get on the air. They are rare, but people like Glenn are out there, running very interesting rigs. And when you find them, you feel like you&#8217;ve hit the jackpot. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Thanks Glenn! <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/KU4NORIG.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"640\" data-original-width=\"360\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/KU4NORIG.jpg\" width=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was really amazing. I had been feeling guilty about not getting on the air much during quarantine. I mean, we have these airwaves and we have the gear, right? Shouldn&#8217;t we be more social, more friendly and get on the air more? I tried yesterday with marginal results (conditions were poor). I called CQ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/04\/27\/listen-to-homebrew-to-homebrew-quarantine-contact-with-glenn-ku4no-on-his-37-year-old-homebrew-ssb-transceiver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Listen to Homebrew-to-Homebrew Quarantine Contact with Glenn KU4NO on his 37 year-old Homebrew SSB Transceiver&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,103,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hb2hb","category-knack-stories","category-ssb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","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=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2231,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions\/2231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}