{"id":2851,"date":"2014-03-23T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/03\/23\/vu2jns-transistor-transmitter-from-india\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:06:28","slug":"vu2jns-transistor-transmitter-from-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/03\/23\/vu2jns-transistor-transmitter-from-india\/","title":{"rendered":"VU2JN&#8217;s &#8220;Transistor Transmitter from India&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vu2jn2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vu2jn2.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> VU2JN\ufeff<\/div>\n<p> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vu3inj.blogspot.in\/\">VU2INJ&#8217;s very interesting blog<\/a> led me to a wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/vu3inj.blogspot.in\/2014\/01\/tribute-to-vu2jn.html\">1967 QST article<\/a> by VU2JN. <a href=\"http:\/\/vu3inj.blogspot.in\/2014\/01\/tribute-to-vu2jn.html\">Check it out. <\/a>Necessity truly is the mother of invention and &#8212; as is the case with our beloved BITX &#8212; we see that in the design of this transmitter. I love how the speaker was left in the cabinet and used as the microphone. Check it out:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/vu3inj.blogspot.in\/2014\/01\/tribute-to-vu2jn.html\"><strong>http:\/\/vu3inj.blogspot.in\/2014\/01\/tribute-to-vu2jn.html<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <strong>More on VU2JN (who very clearly merits &#8220;Homebrew Hero&#8221; status):<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/shipwreck1.hopto.org:8080\/projects\/hamprojects\/VU2JNArchive\/\"><strong>http:\/\/shipwreck1.hopto.org:8080\/projects\/hamprojects\/VU2JNArchive\/<\/strong><\/a><\/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>VU2JN\ufeff VU2INJ&#8217;s very interesting blog led me to a wonderful 1967 QST article by VU2JN. Check it out. Necessity truly is the mother of invention and &#8212; as is the case with our beloved BITX &#8212; we see that in the design of this transmitter. I love how the speaker was left in the cabinet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/03\/23\/vu2jns-transistor-transmitter-from-india\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VU2JN&#8217;s &#8220;Transistor Transmitter from India&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx20","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","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=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2853,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions\/2853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}