{"id":2504,"date":"2011-08-30T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/russia-vermont-sputnik-old-parts\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:24:25","slug":"russia-vermont-sputnik-old-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/russia-vermont-sputnik-old-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia, Vermont, Sputnik, Old Parts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When I heard of the terrible floods in Vermont, I thought immediately of OM Michael, AA1TJ (aka Comrade Mikhail, the Chief Designer) and his underground hamshack. I heard this morning that Michael is high and dry, up at his mountain top lair (the TV transmitter). Here is an update on the Sputnik project: <\/span> <\/p>\n

Fellas,<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

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This morning DL3PB was kind enough to bring Peter, DL3JIN’s recent work to my attention.<\/span><\/div>\n
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http:\/\/dl3jin.de\/sputnik1_tx.htm<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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I think you will agree that Peter has made a beautiful job of it! He not only used Russian tubes (valves), he even had a 21.060MHz Russian-made quartz crystal on-hand. Many of the passive components appear to be ex-Soviet surplus as well. His front panel really shows great spirit. With 96Vdc on the PA anode he’s seeing an RF output power of 650mW.<\/span><\/div>\n
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It should be great fun come October 4! <\/span><\/div>\n
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73\/72,<\/span><\/div>\n
Mike, AA1TJ <\/span><\/div>\n
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When I heard of the terrible floods in Vermont, I thought immediately of OM Michael, AA1TJ (aka Comrade Mikhail, the Chief Designer) and his underground hamshack. I heard this morning that Michael is high and dry, up at his mountain top lair (the TV transmitter). Here is an update on the Sputnik project: Fellas, This … Continue reading “Russia, Vermont, Sputnik, Old Parts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,86,96,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radio-history","category-rainey-michael","category-russia","category-space-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504","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=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}