{"id":246,"date":"2008-06-01T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/06\/01\/beacon-rig-i0-n2cqr-28-240-mhz-1-watt\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T12:49:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T02:49:39","slug":"beacon-rig-i0-n2cqr-28-240-mhz-1-watt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/06\/01\/beacon-rig-i0-n2cqr-28-240-mhz-1-watt\/","title":{"rendered":"Beacon Rig     I0\/N2CQR     28.240 MHz    1 Watt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few shots of my new beacon rig. The first shows the Beacon Box on the shelf above the HW-8, attached to the battery. I&#8217;ve been running the beacon on solar power, using my two Volkswagen panels.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Beacon1a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Beacon1a.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206905950148740194\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Here&#8217;s a look under the hood: The larger board is a crystal controlled 1 watt transmitter (Dour DeMaw&#8217;s (&#8220;Lil&#8217; Slugger&#8221;). The smaller board is K1EL&#8217;s amazing keyer. I&#8217;ve left space for a 30 meter QRPp QRSS transmitter.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiED-a8hAc_ykUrg_wVq_FshCNrdzK-QrUeZEtaGA7s_P08PExyMOVNtiRB1NfYkeuvBJj1h23B7TnTiIrU9AxDbo5-eEAfs3uH4vie6mct2NaTfLADECYqSj-ik58yo3dR1dAc5S9klHQ\/s1600-h\/Beacon2a.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Beacon2a.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206906237911549042\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Finally, here is the &#8220;Sideswiper&#8221; aka &#8220;Cootie Keyer&#8221; I threw together in order to get my beacon message into the keyer. I discovered that I need a lot of practice on horizontal CW!<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiG6HFYXE8t_L0uHdRRwr9R9kFZcemNUmFd1bol8g9leQff7J_Gr3Lpx0jkkuLHzB5fS7FOMyTQX9OygqLbtIvXpJf4t_RlOCeTFiT-YebRFKCPpaCTBUiM_v7eF5JXm0upVpWwn0G77Q8\/s1600-h\/Beacon3a.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Beacon3a.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206907453387293826\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few shots of my new beacon rig. The first shows the Beacon Box on the shelf above the HW-8, attached to the battery. I&#8217;ve been running the beacon on solar power, using my two Volkswagen panels.Here&#8217;s a look under the hood: The larger board is a crystal controlled 1 watt transmitter (Dour DeMaw&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/06\/01\/beacon-rig-i0-n2cqr-28-240-mhz-1-watt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beacon Rig     I0\/N2CQR     28.240 MHz    1 Watt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beacon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}