{"id":4424,"date":"2025-04-16T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/04\/16\/homebrew-vs-kits-the-influence-of-russian-homebrewers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:36:18","slug":"homebrew-vs-kits-the-influence-of-russian-homebrewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/04\/16\/homebrew-vs-kits-the-influence-of-russian-homebrewers\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebrew vs. Kits — The influence of Russian Homebrewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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Like Kirk, I too was influenced by the Russian and Eastern European homebrewers. As a kid, every issue of QST seemed to contain (especially in the “How’s DX?” column) pictures of intrepid Russian homebrewers seated next to their HOMEBREW stations. I wanted to be like them. <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n

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When I first launched the Direct Conversion Receiver Challenge, someone decided that it would be better to make the receiver into a kit. He criticized me for deciding to keep this project homebrew. There seemed to be a lack of understanding of the difference. This morning I got an e-mail from Kirk NT0Z. He attached his column from the February 2013 issue of Monitoring Times. I think he captures very well the difference between kits and homebrew. An excerpt from the column appears above. I need to get a portrait of UW3DI to hang above my workbench. Thanks Kirk.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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Click on the image for a better read. Like Kirk, I too was influenced by the Russian and Eastern European homebrewers. As a kid, every issue of QST seemed to contain (especially in the “How’s DX?” column) pictures of intrepid Russian homebrewers seated next to their HOMEBREW stations. I wanted to be like them. When … Continue reading “Homebrew vs. Kits — The influence of Russian Homebrewers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248,21,105,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-direct-conversion-challenge","category-homebrew","category-kits","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424","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=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4428,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions\/4428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}