{"id":2337,"date":"2024-05-24T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/05\/24\/version-ii-of-15-10-rig-updates-on-bal-mod-af-amp-and-rf-amp-dx\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:41","slug":"version-ii-of-15-10-rig-updates-on-bal-mod-af-amp-and-rf-amp-dx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/05\/24\/version-ii-of-15-10-rig-updates-on-bal-mod-af-amp-and-rf-amp-dx\/","title":{"rendered":"Version II of 15-10 Rig &#8212; Updates on Bal Mod, AF amp, and RF Amp, DX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r7CpnkxruHo?si=01ZL3iQ4wJIVKMOn?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"><b>Version II of the 15-10 rig is mostly done. I did a lot of work on the AF amp, balanced modulator, Mic amp, carrier oscillator, and filter. Dean KK4DAS and I continue to test and measure the RF power amplifier. I describe the brutally simple, non-sequenced T\/R switching arrangement, and the spread-out open air construction style.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"><b> Version I of this rig is on its way to the Dominican Republic. Version II will stay in Virginia. I have already worked a lot of SSB DX with this rig, including, Thailand, Taiwan, China, India, Kenya, Australia, American Samoa, and others.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #131313; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"><b>This video was inspired by the recent work of Nick M0NTV and Charlie ZL2CTM. And of course, Pete Juliano N6QW. <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Version II of the 15-10 rig is mostly done. I did a lot of work on the AF amp, balanced modulator, Mic amp, carrier oscillator, and filter. Dean KK4DAS and I continue to test and measure the RF power amplifier. I describe the brutally simple, non-sequenced T\/R switching arrangement, and the spread-out open air construction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/05\/24\/version-ii-of-15-10-rig-updates-on-bal-mod-af-amp-and-rf-amp-dx\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Version II of 15-10 Rig &#8212; Updates on Bal Mod, AF amp, and RF Amp, DX&#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":[123,41,349,350,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15-10-transceiver","category-juliano-pete","category-m0ntv","category-morris-charlie","category-souleles-dean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337","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=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11221,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions\/11221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}