{"id":2975,"date":"2015-04-05T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/05\/chuck-adams-secret-recipe-for-muppet-pc-boards-and-lots-of-other-homebrew-tips\/"},"modified":"2015-04-05T12:11:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T02:11:00","slug":"chuck-adams-secret-recipe-for-muppet-pc-boards-and-lots-of-other-homebrew-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/05\/chuck-adams-secret-recipe-for-muppet-pc-boards-and-lots-of-other-homebrew-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Adams&#8217; Secret Recipe for Muppet PC Boards (and lots of other homebrew tips)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O6AmT1trO60?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <strong>A few days ago I shared an e-mail from John N8RVE on his re-build of the SW-40. John used a &#8220;Muppet&#8221; board, Muppet being a combination of Manhattan and Ugly techniques. But there is nothing ugly about it really. I joked in the title of the blog post that the beauty of this technique is almost enough to get a homebrewer to abandon the Manhattan technique. Now, I was born on Manhattan island, and I went to Manhattan College, and I have been using the Manhattan technique for many years, so there is a lot of homebrew inertia at work here. But that SW-40 looked good. John mentioned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O6AmT1trO60\">Chuck Adams K7QO has a series of YouTube videos<\/a> on how to make Muppet boards. This morning as I waited for the bands to open up, I decided to take a look. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Wow, they are really great. I couldn&#8217;t stop watching them. I kind of &#8220;binge watched&#8221; the whole series. Chuck Adams is a really great teacher. There are lots of great homebrew tips in those videos, and not just about the boards. I NEED one of those new G3UUR crystal testers, the version that also gives you ESR! I WANT a laminator, an infrared thermometer, some Krylon clear, and pool chemicals! And a harmonica reed tuner!<\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>I&#8217;ve been sort of planning my next rig. It will be a version of the BITX. But having recently built two BITXs using the Manhattan technique, I kind of feel the need to do something different. I am planning to use some different circuitry (termination insensitive amplifiers) and MAYBE an Si5351. Perhaps plug-in filters. But now I want to also move forward in terms of building technique. I want to Muppet! <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Thanks Chuck!<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> <strong>Here is the link to part one of Chuck&#8217;s excellent video series: <\/strong><br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O6AmT1trO60\"><strong>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O6AmT1trO60<\/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>A few days ago I shared an e-mail from John N8RVE on his re-build of the SW-40. John used a &#8220;Muppet&#8221; board, Muppet being a combination of Manhattan and Ugly techniques. But there is nothing ugly about it really. I joked in the title of the blog post that the beauty of this technique is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/05\/chuck-adams-secret-recipe-for-muppet-pc-boards-and-lots-of-other-homebrew-tips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chuck Adams&#8217; Secret Recipe for Muppet PC Boards (and lots of other homebrew tips)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,384,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adams-chuck","category-muppet-boards","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","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=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}