{"id":353,"date":"2015-05-02T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/05\/02\/vk2yacs-yard-long-in-the-yard-bidirectional-backyard-si5351-rig\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T13:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T03:02:29","slug":"vk2yacs-yard-long-in-the-yard-bidirectional-backyard-si5351-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/05\/02\/vk2yacs-yard-long-in-the-yard-bidirectional-backyard-si5351-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"VK2YAC&#8217;s Yard-long, In-The-Yard, Bidirectional, Backyard Si5351 Rig"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/VK2YACBreadboard.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/VK2YACBreadboard.jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong>Alf, VK2YAC, wrote to Pete thanking him for the inspiration provided by the LBS project that Pete and Ben launched via QRP Quarterly. Alf has obviously taken to heart Pete&#8217;s recommendation re using a BIG breadboard. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>On his web page Alf writes: &#8220;Build your homebrew station and join the revolution, it&#8217;s lots of fun!&#8221; We&#8217;re with you Alf! <\/strong><br \/> <strong>Alf has more great pictures of his BBR-40 rig and short descriptions of the sub-circuits he has used. Note Si5351 with Arduino Pro-Mini for BFO and VFO. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/qsl.net\/vk2yac\/Page2.html\"><strong>http:\/\/qsl.net\/vk2yac\/Page2.html<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alf, VK2YAC, wrote to Pete thanking him for the inspiration provided by the LBS project that Pete and Ben launched via QRP Quarterly. Alf has obviously taken to heart Pete&#8217;s recommendation re using a BIG breadboard. On his web page Alf writes: &#8220;Build your homebrew station and join the revolution, it&#8217;s lots of fun!&#8221; We&#8217;re &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/05\/02\/vk2yacs-yard-long-in-the-yard-bidirectional-backyard-si5351-rig\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VK2YAC&#8217;s Yard-long, In-The-Yard, Bidirectional, Backyard Si5351 Rig&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,29,137,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arduino","category-australia","category-dds","category-microcontrollers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","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=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}