{"id":3193,"date":"2011-06-20T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/06\/20\/colins-fb-rig\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:43:04","slug":"colins-fb-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/06\/20\/colins-fb-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin’s FB Rig"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Hi Bill,<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m still enjoying your podcast very much – I have the T-shirt to prove it!<\/span><\/p>\n

My parents bought me SolderSmoke the book for <\/span><\/span>Christmas<\/span> and I must echo other people’s comments that it is very good and the explanations you give make a lot more sense than those in other technical publications.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listening to your podcast got me thinking about radios again and I have nearly completed my first homebrewed transceiver project. It’s all YOUR fault! I had a spare RockMite keyer chip in my junk box, so I thought I’d use it……….. Take one small keyer chip and……… build a whole <\/span><\/span>new radio<\/span>!<\/span><\/p>\n

Okay, I used Dave’s (K1SWL) schematic, but I did not use any <\/span><\/span>printed circuit boards<\/span> and I have made some modifications to the circuit. I think I can class this as homebrew. I even made the twin paddle key! The only thing I didn’t make from parts are the earphones, see <\/span>http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24901892@N03\/5833428467\/<\/span><\/a> There are more photos on the <\/span><\/span>Flickr<\/span> site too.<\/span><\/p>\n

Looking forward to the next edition of the SolderSmoke podcast.<\/span><\/p>\n

72\/3<\/span><\/p>\n

Colin<\/span>
M0CGH<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Bill, I’m still enjoying your podcast very much – I have the T-shirt to prove it! My parents bought me SolderSmoke the book for Christmas and I must echo other people’s comments that it is very good and the explanations you give make a lot more sense than those in other technical publications. Listening … Continue reading “Colin’s FB Rig”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soldersmoke-podcast","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193","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=3193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3195,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions\/3195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}