{"id":3502,"date":"2012-07-15T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/na5ns-handimans-guide-to-qrp-transmitters\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:36:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:36:51","slug":"na5ns-handimans-guide-to-qrp-transmitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/na5ns-handimans-guide-to-qrp-transmitters\/","title":{"rendered":"NA5N&#8217;s Handiman&#8217;s Guide to QRP Transmitters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-fj1fgbKKC9g\/UALgh4EHZcI\/AAAAAAAASfs\/WiOca_CId_0\/s1600\/NA5N.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 181px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-fj1fgbKKC9g\/UALgh4EHZcI\/AAAAAAAASfs\/WiOca_CId_0\/s400\/NA5N.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5765417345577608642\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; \">This magnificent article came out of the 2002 Atlanticon QRP forum. I think George Heron, N2APB, had sent me a paper copy of the &#8220;Proceedings&#8221; from that event. I got a hold of it just around the time that was trying to deepen my understanding of transistor amplifier theory. Paul&#8217;s article was a huge help. There then ensued a long on-and-off e-mail discussion of the article, and of the need to make an e-version of it available to the wider world. I lost track of where we ended up, but I remember Paul being very pleased with the feedback.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; \">Here it is! Thanks Paul!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Handiman1105.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 304px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Handiman1105.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5765415215089820754\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Handiman2106.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 304px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Handiman2106.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5765415205499991826\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Handiman3107.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; 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I think George Heron, N2APB, had sent me a paper copy of the &#8220;Proceedings&#8221; from that event. I got a hold of it just around the time that was trying to deepen my understanding of transistor amplifier theory. Paul&#8217;s article was a huge help. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/na5ns-handimans-guide-to-qrp-transmitters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NA5N&#8217;s Handiman&#8217;s Guide to QRP Transmitters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,64,306,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amplifier-theory","category-clubs","category-harden-paul","category-qrp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502","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=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3513,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions\/3513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}