{"id":4219,"date":"2014-12-26T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/12\/26\/some-colorburst-qrp-encouragement-from-nd6t\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:46:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:46:04","slug":"some-colorburst-qrp-encouragement-from-nd6t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/12\/26\/some-colorburst-qrp-encouragement-from-nd6t\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Colorburst QRP Encouragement from ND6T"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ND6T.png\" 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\/2014\/12\/ND6T.png\" height=\"254\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Don ND6T has been helping us come up with a good simple low pass filter for the MMM (Steve Smith and the FCC insist). At the end of one of his e-mails, he shared this QRP Colorburst gem: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b>  <\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" id=\"yiv3337819385yui_3_16_0_1_1418146912983_61501\"> <i><b>Be prepared to be occasionally amazed. Back in the late 70&#8217;s I worked all over the western U.S. with under 1\/2 watt. Regularly. Even a QSO with a UA0 (Siberia) with under 1 milliwatt, he having answered my CQ! I was seeing if I could &#8220;get out&#8221; using a single &#8220;D&#8221; cell flashlight battery that was too weak for the flashlight. All using a colorburst crystal. Oh, and a dipole 100&#8242; high stretched over a creek.<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" id=\"yiv3337819385yui_3_16_0_1_1418146912983_68299\"> <b><i> <\/i><i>73\/72,<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" id=\"yiv3337819385yui_3_16_0_1_1418146912983_70176\"> <i><b>Don ND6T<\/b><\/i><\/div>\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>Don ND6T has been helping us come up with a good simple low pass filter for the MMM (Steve Smith and the FCC insist). At the end of one of his e-mails, he shared this QRP Colorburst gem: Be prepared to be occasionally amazed. Back in the late 70&#8217;s I worked all over the western &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/12\/26\/some-colorburst-qrp-encouragement-from-nd6t\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some Colorburst QRP Encouragement from ND6T&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knack-stories","category-qrp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219","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=4219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4221,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions\/4221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}