{"id":2987,"date":"2021-10-22T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/10\/22\/tribal-knowledge-pete-n6qw-on-how-to-make-things-work\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:31","slug":"tribal-knowledge-pete-n6qw-on-how-to-make-things-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/10\/22\/tribal-knowledge-pete-n6qw-on-how-to-make-things-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribal Knowledge: Pete N6QW on “How to Make Things Work”"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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BUILD IT LIKE THIS<\/b><\/div>\n
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Yesterday Pete Juliano published a blog post<\/a> that contains an enormous amount of tribal knowledge and good advice for homebrewers. As I read Pete’s post, I thought back on my own failed teenage efforts at homebrewing — the Herring Aid Five fiasco<\/a> came to mind. I also thought of Farhan’s comments about his similar frustrations with early homebrewing efforts (though I find it hard to believe that Farhan EVER had trouble making something work). <\/b><\/div>\n

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Above we see a large N6QW prototype breadboard. Note how it is easy to see where the various stages start and stop. This is key to understanding and troubleshooting a complex rig. If you want to see the antithesis of this approach, here it is:<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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DO NOT BUILD IT LIKE THIS<\/b><\/div>\n
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This was supposed to be an 80 meter DSB transceiver. The builder (who will remain anonymous) obviously didn’t get it to work. I think he should try again, using Pete’s methodical approach. <\/b><\/div>\n

Check out Pete’s great advice here: <\/b><\/p>\n

http:\/\/n6qw.blogspot.com\/2021\/10\/how-to-make-things-work-tribal.html<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n
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Thanks Pete! <\/b><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BUILD IT LIKE THIS Yesterday Pete Juliano published a blog post that contains an enormous amount of tribal knowledge and good advice for homebrewers. As I read Pete’s post, I thought back on my own failed teenage efforts at homebrewing — the Herring Aid Five fiasco came to mind. I also thought of Farhan’s comments … Continue reading “Tribal Knowledge: Pete N6QW on “How to Make Things Work””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,167,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farhan","category-herring-aid-5","category-juliano-pete"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","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=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2990,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions\/2990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}