{"id":3085,"date":"2011-12-18T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/12\/18\/a-wwv-trick-with-the-drake-2-b\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:33:15","slug":"a-wwv-trick-with-the-drake-2-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/12\/18\/a-wwv-trick-with-the-drake-2-b\/","title":{"rendered":"A WWV Trick with the Drake 2-B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/15mhz1st.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/15mhz1st.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5687454185535294386\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I was reading the October 1962 issue of 73 Magazine (we&#8217;re always on the cutting edge here!). In the back pages a little piece from K4FQU (quite a call!) about the Drake 2-B caught my eye.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> OM FQU points out that by putting the bandswitch on 40 and the preselector at 10, WWV&#8217;s 15 mc signal can be heard at the zero position on the 2B dial. It works! The familiar time signal beeps are coming through nicely here. It&#8217;s fun to teach an old dog new tricks!<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for a 2-B, Bill KE5VZT alerted me to this one:<br \/><\/span><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/forums.qrz.com\/showthread.php?325222-Drake-2B-with-Q-mult-amp-speaker\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1324213682_0\">http:\/\/forums.qrz.com\/showthread.php?325222-Drake-2B-with-Q-mult-amp-speaker<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">On the same page there is a review of a new Double Sideband rig from World Radio Labs &#8212; the SB-175. Sounds like a winner! <\/span> <\/span> <br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/wwv.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/wwv.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5687448205371314434\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>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>I was reading the October 1962 issue of 73 Magazine (we&#8217;re always on the cutting edge here!). In the back pages a little piece from K4FQU (quite a call!) about the Drake 2-B caught my eye. OM FQU points out that by putting the bandswitch on 40 and the preselector at 10, WWV&#8217;s 15 mc &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/12\/18\/a-wwv-trick-with-the-drake-2-b\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A WWV Trick with the Drake 2-B&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drake-2b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","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=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3088,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions\/3088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}