{"id":2419,"date":"2012-02-15T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/02\/15\/kickin-the-kick-panel-to-40\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:15:15","slug":"kickin-the-kick-panel-to-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/02\/15\/kickin-the-kick-panel-to-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickin&#8217; the Kick Panel to 40?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiOytt_r91gSv4DZNVGvzJHyIam935NWoQEASTOR1uXa_RlaQCE5lxEwMfScCgVaGU81u4th2zCrO7E3f-rl3MmAh9OVrrAKWR5qPmTmW3nEeMsZVH53L63pyFFkFRk8NV0E-f42l_PImw\/s1600\/Steve+\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/image_1753067712.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709315785121697650\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Thanks for all the suggestions re what to do with the kick panel rig. Steve &#8220;Snort Rosin&#8221; Smith (pictured above) suggested getting a 9 Mhz crystal filter and building an SSB rig for 75 and 20 meters. I was tempted Steve, but remember, simplicity is a virtue, and DSB makes a transceiver REAL simple.<\/p>\n<p>Craig and OM KWJ suggested 10 meters. I hear you, but I&#8217;m looking for a rig that I can use for pre-dawn rag chews, and at that hour 10 is often a white noise generator. <\/p>\n<p>Bruce wants me to put it on 475 KILO hertz. I dunno about that one Bruce &#8212; sounds kind of lonely! <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/p>\n<p>As I thought this over, I remembered a comment from the true guru of DSB: Peter, VK3YE. In one of his inspiring videos, he mentioned that 40 meters is his favorite band for DSB rigs. It is 0545 local and I am hearing a lot of activity on 40. It all sounds very friendly. Some DX coming through&#8230; I could make a stable VFO for 40. Then I add a little DC receiver and I&#8217;m in business. So I&#8217;m leaning towards 40 meters at this point. <\/span> <\/span><\/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>Thanks for all the suggestions re what to do with the kick panel rig. Steve &#8220;Snort Rosin&#8221; Smith (pictured above) suggested getting a 9 Mhz crystal filter and building an SSB rig for 75 and 20 meters. I was tempted Steve, but remember, simplicity is a virtue, and DSB makes a transceiver REAL simple. Craig &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/02\/15\/kickin-the-kick-panel-to-40\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kickin&#8217; the Kick Panel to 40?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dsb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419","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=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2421,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions\/2421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}