{"id":289,"date":"2022-06-25T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/06\/25\/australian-homebrew-owen-duffy-ex-vk1od-now-vk2omd-are-hams-makers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:03:27","slug":"australian-homebrew-owen-duffy-ex-vk1od-now-vk2omd-are-hams-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/06\/25\/australian-homebrew-owen-duffy-ex-vk1od-now-vk2omd-are-hams-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Homebrew:  Owen Duffy ex VK1OD now VK2OMD.  Are Hams Makers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Owen20Duffy.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"300\" data-original-width=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Owen20Duffy.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>This week I stumbled upon this amazing blog from Australia. I had to check with Australian friends to find out more about the author. Owen Duffy has for many years been a rigorous homebrewer who has documented his findings on his blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/owenduffy.net\/blog\/\">https:\/\/owenduffy.net\/blog\/<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>For example, Owen asks the question, &#8220;Are hams makers?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/owenduffy.net\/blog\/?p=122\">https:\/\/owenduffy.net\/blog\/?p=122<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>There is a lot of great material on this blog. It goes back to 2013. Peter Parker notes that an earlier version of the blog (before Owen was forced to change his callsign from VK1OD to VK2OMD) goes back even further and is accessible via the Way-Back Machine: <\/b><a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/*\/vk1od.net&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1656202911870000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0lS7Et2T8IZwK02KlzaU0P\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/*\/vk1od.net\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\" target=\"_blank\"><b>https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/*\/<wbr><\/wbr>vk1od.net<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Check it out. Lots of really useful and interesting material there. Thanks Owen. And thanks to the Australian friends who provided background info. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I stumbled upon this amazing blog from Australia. I had to check with Australian friends to find out more about the author. Owen Duffy has for many years been a rigorous homebrewer who has documented his findings on his blog: https:\/\/owenduffy.net\/blog\/ For example, Owen asks the question, &#8220;Are hams makers?&#8221; https:\/\/owenduffy.net\/blog\/?p=122 There is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/06\/25\/australian-homebrew-owen-duffy-ex-vk1od-now-vk2omd-are-hams-makers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Australian Homebrew:  Owen Duffy ex VK1OD now VK2OMD.  Are Hams Makers?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","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=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}