{"id":341,"date":"2021-10-17T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/10\/17\/2-meter-homebrew-the-fredbox-video\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:32","slug":"2-meter-homebrew-the-fredbox-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/10\/17\/2-meter-homebrew-the-fredbox-video\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Meter Homebrew:  The Fredbox (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t1skp2d3yRg?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>I predict a rebirth of interest in 2 meter homebrew. This will probably hit around Christmas time. The impetus will come out of Hyderabad, India. At this point, I can say no more. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I was thinking about all of this today. I remembered &#8220;The Fredbox.&#8221; G3XBM&#8217;s report on this fantastic rig was carried on this blog before it was even a blog. And the Fredbox goes back much further in time &#8212; back to the mid-1970s. It must have been great fun to have QSOs with this rig in Cambridge England back in the day. G3XBM actually crossed the English channel with this 10 mW rig. FB. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>When I was in London (2003-2007), G3XBM&#8217;s post on the Fredbox got me interested in 2 Meter AM. I had a down-converter that let me listen, and I went as far as modifying a Benton Harbor Lunchbox for the proper AM transmit frequency. I don&#8217;t think I made any contacts, but I still have the bits and bobs of this rig, so if anyone in the Northern Virginia area wants to get on, please let me know &#8212; I will blow the dust off this project and will build a 2 meter antenna. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Here are more details from G3XBM on The Fredbox: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/g3xbmqrp3\/vuhf\/fredbox\"><b>https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/g3xbmqrp3\/vuhf\/fredbox <\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Hans G0UPL got into the Fredbox in 2009 and 2016: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanssummers.com\/fredbox.html\"><b>http:\/\/www.hanssummers.com\/fredbox.html<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I predict a rebirth of interest in 2 meter homebrew. This will probably hit around Christmas time. The impetus will come out of Hyderabad, India. At this point, I can say no more. I was thinking about all of this today. I remembered &#8220;The Fredbox.&#8221; G3XBM&#8217;s report on this fantastic rig was carried on this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/10\/17\/2-meter-homebrew-the-fredbox-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2 Meter Homebrew:  The Fredbox (Video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,130,119,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-meters","category-am","category-uk","category-vhf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","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=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11433,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/11433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}