{"id":2943,"date":"2015-07-08T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/08\/the-wizard-of-warrenton-jerry-ki4io\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:18:15","slug":"the-wizard-of-warrenton-jerry-ki4io","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/08\/the-wizard-of-warrenton-jerry-ki4io\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wizard of Warrenton: Jerry KI4IO"},"content":{"rendered":"
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That’s Jerry KI4IO of Warrenton Virginia sitting in front of truly impressive collection of homebrew gear. The cream-colored box above the Vibroplex is Jerry’s new 7 MHz phasing transceiver. He has a wonderful write-up of this rig in the qrp-tech group files section: <\/strong><\/div>\n
https:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/neo\/groups\/qrp-tech\/files\/KI4IO\/<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n
You may have to join the yahoo group to access it, but believe me, it is worth it. Jerry took a very eclectic approach to circuit selection and came up with a very cool rig. Lots of soul in that new machine! Here it is in breadboard form:<\/strong> <\/div>\n
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Jerry worked in U.S. Embassies as a communications officer and is obviously a member of the International Brotherhood of Electronic Wizards. From his QRZ page: <\/strong><\/div>\n
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While in India I was licensed at VU2LHO and worked a lot of US hams with a 135′ flat-top and open-wire feed. I had the antenna strung between two bamboo towers atop the embassy housing 2ND-story roof-top. I also put up a 3\/8 wave vertical on the roof for 10 meters. That little antenna had 110 radials stapled into the roof scree and worked very well! The rig was a HW-101. I was in Kathmandu, Nepal from early 1980 to late 1982. I could not obtain a license there, but became good friends with Father Moran, 9N1MM, and would often spend time up at his place putting his Drake station on CW. Pretty cool being real DX!<\/em><\/strong> <\/div>\n
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Warrenton, Virginia is not far from my QTH (it is the birthplace of Cappuccio the wonder-dog).<\/strong> <\/div>\n
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FB Jerry.<\/strong> \ufeff<\/div>\n
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That’s Jerry KI4IO of Warrenton Virginia sitting in front of truly impressive collection of homebrew gear. The cream-colored box above the Vibroplex is Jerry’s new 7 MHz phasing transceiver. He has a wonderful write-up of this rig in the qrp-tech group files section: https:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/neo\/groups\/qrp-tech\/files\/KI4IO\/ You may have to join the yahoo group to access it, … Continue reading “The Wizard of Warrenton: Jerry KI4IO”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,103,382],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-knack-stories","category-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943","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=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}