{"id":2915,"date":"2021-12-07T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/12\/07\/junk-box-sideband-from-the-azores-2004-qst-article\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:07","slug":"junk-box-sideband-from-the-azores-2004-qst-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/12\/07\/junk-box-sideband-from-the-azores-2004-qst-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Junk Box Sideband from the Azores (2004 QST Article)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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About 20 years after I first built it, I find myself working on and using this SSB transmitter. I recently added some impedance matching to the Swan 240 crystal filter<\/a>; several years ago I replaced the PA with a “JBOT” amplifier designed by Farhan VU2ESE. I now have it on the air, using it with a highly modified Doug DeMaw, Barebones “Barbados” superhet receiver<\/a>. I had my first (recent!) QSO with this station yesterday, with Les 6Y6Y on the beach in Negril, Jamaica. <\/b><\/div>\n

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More on this project in due course. Lots of soul in this machine. <\/b><\/div>\n

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I’d forgotten about this article — thanks to Pete Eaton for reminding me. Click on the images for a better look at the article. For an even clearer view, download the images and then open them on your computer. <\/b><\/div>\n
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About 20 years after I first built it, I find myself working on and using this SSB transmitter. I recently added some impedance matching to the Swan 240 crystal filter; several years ago I replaced the PA with a “JBOT” amplifier designed by Farhan VU2ESE. I now have it on the air, using it with … Continue reading “Junk Box Sideband from the Azores (2004 QST Article)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,199,7,19,16,381,17,23,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azores","category-barbados","category-demaw-doug","category-dominican-republic","category-filters","category-jamaica","category-sprat","category-ssb","category-swan-240"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915","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=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2919,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions\/2919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}