{"id":3427,"date":"2021-12-04T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/12\/04\/deans-supercharged-16-watt-furlough-2040-simple-ssb-rig\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:07","slug":"deans-supercharged-16-watt-furlough-2040-simple-ssb-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/12\/04\/deans-supercharged-16-watt-furlough-2040-simple-ssb-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean&#8217;s Supercharged, 16-Watt, Furlough 2040, Simple SSB Rig"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Dean2527s16Watter.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1232\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Dean2527s16Watter.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>&#8216;Tis a thing of beauty. <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>It is especially appropriate for us to use that Irish phrase because the design of the rig&#8217;s new final amplifier is out of Ireland. Our friend Dean KK4DAS added a 16 watt RF amplifier based on a design by EI9GQ to his homebrew N6QW Simple SSB rig. Note the IBEW label on the top. <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Here is Dean&#8217;s blog post on this wonderful project (with video and more pictures). <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/kk4das.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/furlough-2040-supercharged-final-bench.html\">https:\/\/kk4das.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/furlough-2040-supercharged-final-bench.html<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Dean has it on the air and is getting good reports. He has clearly come a LONG way from his Michigan Mighty Mite build of just two years ago. FB OM. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Dean2527sEI9GQFinal.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1287\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Dean2527sEI9GQFinal.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b>Here is Dean&#8217;s build of the EI9GQ 16 Watt Final<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Dean2527s16Watter-FinalAssembly.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1152\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Dean2527s16Watter-FinalAssembly.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b>Final final assembly! <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DeanPowerOutput.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1165\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DeanPowerOutput.jpg\" width=\"228\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b>16 W <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>More info here: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/kk4das.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/furlough-2040-supercharged-final-bench.html\">https:\/\/kk4das.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/furlough-2040-supercharged-final-bench.html<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Tis a thing of beauty. It is especially appropriate for us to use that Irish phrase because the design of the rig&#8217;s new final amplifier is out of Ireland. Our friend Dean KK4DAS added a 16 watt RF amplifier based on a design by EI9GQ to his homebrew N6QW Simple SSB rig. Note the IBEW &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/12\/04\/deans-supercharged-16-watt-furlough-2040-simple-ssb-rig\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dean&#8217;s Supercharged, 16-Watt, Furlough 2040, Simple SSB Rig&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,232,41,90,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amplifier-theory","category-ireland","category-juliano-pete","category-souleles-dean","category-ssb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427","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=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3432,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions\/3432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}