{"id":3235,"date":"2019-12-01T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/12\/01\/et-2-contact-16-pete-kd2omv-builder-of-a-6t9er-with-video\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:46:41","slug":"et-2-contact-16-pete-kd2omv-builder-of-a-6t9er-with-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/12\/01\/et-2-contact-16-pete-kd2omv-builder-of-a-6t9er-with-video\/","title":{"rendered":"ET-2 Contact #16 &#8212; Pete, KD2OMV, Builder of a 6T9er (with video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2LNBdYhitE4\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>Yesterday I had my first contact using the ET-2&#8217;s improved receiver. I had watched the video of N0WVA&#8217;s receiver and I realized that more sensitivity was possible. So I tried to replicate his LC ratio. I think that helped a lot. Today I posted a plea for help on the SKCC Sked page and then called CQ on 40. I was answered by Pete, KD2OMV who was so loud that I had to take the headphones off my ears! He was booming in, all the way from upstate New York. The receiver was running off a somewhat depleted 9 volt battery. I made a quick video (above). I&#8217;m just holding the I-phone up to the headphone, while also trying to copy the incoming CW. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>This was a really great contact. Pete has a wonderful knack story. He was licensed as a kid but never made a contact. As an adult he found his old box of parts for a 6T9er in his parents house. So he builds it and uses the homebrew rig to make his first ham radio contact. FB Pete. Thanks for the contact OM. I wrote your call on the ET-2. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b>  <\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/KD2OMV.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1200\" data-original-width=\"900\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/KD2OMV.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Pete KD2OMV<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had my first contact using the ET-2&#8217;s improved receiver. I had watched the video of N0WVA&#8217;s receiver and I realized that more sensitivity was possible. So I tried to replicate his LC ratio. I think that helped a lot. Today I posted a plea for help on the SKCC Sked page and then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/12\/01\/et-2-contact-16-pete-kd2omv-builder-of-a-6t9er-with-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ET-2 Contact #16 &#8212; Pete, KD2OMV, Builder of a 6T9er (with video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,103,85,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-et-2","category-knack-stories","category-minimalist-radio","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","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=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3237,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}