{"id":4309,"date":"2018-07-19T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/07\/19\/homebrew-juju-hb2hb\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:54:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:54:57","slug":"homebrew-juju-hb2hb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/07\/19\/homebrew-juju-hb2hb\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebrew Juju — HB2HB"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oh man, last night the Radio Gods were on my side. I only had about a half hour on 40 SSB, but I had some really nice QSOs. WB2HJK George in NYC was very interested in the BITX revolution. W3BT in Philadelphia is a kind-hearted OT who ran an ENORMOUS Yagi atop a row-house in the city — the antenna extended over the street and TWO of his neighbors houses. Never had a TVI problems. FB. SS listener WA3O Mike called in — Mike is the fellow who gave me my HW-7. Mike has been running his uBITX into a homebrew 500 watt LDMOS amp. FB Mike. <\/b>

<\/b> Then the real miracle happened. Just as I was about to throw the switch, Glenn KU4NO called. I decided to give him a report. But then he said something I rarely hear: “My rig is homebrew too!” I checked the log — I had spoken to Glenn before, but our last QSO was in December 2001. I was in the Azores. Glenn was on the same homebrew rig. We had a nice talk about his rig. FB. <\/b>

<\/b> Glenn told me that in all his years on the air, he has only had a few contacts with other homebrew stations. He had a list of them: 1) W4ZCB, 2) N6ORS (FB! SS Listener!), N2CQR (“No wait — I just heard you but we didn’t talk.”) and W2JUQ. I will tell Glenn that he needs to add CU2JL to the list — that was me in 2001 and I was indeed homebrew DSB.) <\/b>

<\/b>To top it all off, Dino KL0S was listening and recorded the final part of the QSO. See below. (The video might take a few minutes to load.) <\/b>

<\/b> In honor of that FB night on 40 I am re-posting the animated GIF of my BITX-17 build. I hope it doesn’t make you seasick! <\/b>

<\/b> Also, I think we need to add a term to the SolderSmoke lexicon: Juju. As in Homebrew Juju. See: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Juju<\/a> Right? What do you think Steve Silverman? <\/b>

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Oh man, last night the Radio Gods were on my side. I only had about a half hour on 40 SSB, but I had some really nice QSOs. WB2HJK George in NYC was very interested in the BITX revolution. W3BT in Philadelphia is a kind-hearted OT who ran an ENORMOUS Yagi atop a row-house in … Continue reading “Homebrew Juju — HB2HB”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-40-meters","category-hb2hb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309","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=4309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4311,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309\/revisions\/4311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}