{"id":4576,"date":"2021-04-16T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T07:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/04\/16\/homebrew-lives-twenty-n6qw-simple-ssb-transceivers-under-construction-in-northern-virginia\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:26:29","slug":"homebrew-lives-twenty-n6qw-simple-ssb-transceivers-under-construction-in-northern-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/04\/16\/homebrew-lives-twenty-n6qw-simple-ssb-transceivers-under-construction-in-northern-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebrew Lives!  TWENTY N6QW Simple SSB Transceivers Under Construction in Northern Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/km4udxIFglamorpic1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1205\" data-original-width=\"2610\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/km4udxIFglamorpic1.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">IF strip by Don KM4UDX<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>This has to be one of the most successful of SSB group-build projects. Dean KK4DAS has been leading 20 members of the Vienna Wireless Society in the construction of N6QW&#8217;s Simple SSB Transceiver, with Dean&#8217;s &#8220;Furlough 40&#8221; additions. This is very FB, and very encouraging. Dean clearly has The Knack. Just two winters ago I was smuggling a 3.579 MHz crystal to Dean for use in a Michigan Mighty Mite. He has clearly made a lot of progress. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>Dean writes: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;\">It has been just over a year since I completed my initial build of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kk4das.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/dean-kk4dass-furlough-40-ssb-rig.html\" style=\"color: #cc6611; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;\" target=\"_blank\">Furlough 40<\/a><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;\"> with much coaching and assistance from Pete. Mike and Don are two out of 20 members of the Vienna Wireless Society Makers group that is working on a group build the SimpleSSB project as enhanced by me to include features like CAT control for digital modes. Beginning about six weeks ago the group is progressing module by module per<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;\"> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/\" style=\"color: #cc6611; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;\" target=\"_blank\">SolderSmoke <\/a><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;\">best practice advice. We started with the audio amplifier, followed that with the Arduino\/SI-5351 based controller module and the builders are just completing the IF module. This week at our weekly meeting, Mike proudly showed off his success. <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>Read all about it, and see some really great videos here: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/kk4das.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/homebrew-lives-furlough-40-simplessb.html\">https:\/\/kk4das.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/homebrew-lives-furlough-40-simplessb.html<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/NT8BControllerFront.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1536\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/NT8BControllerFront.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Leon NT8D&#8217;s Front Panel<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IF strip by Don KM4UDX This has to be one of the most successful of SSB group-build projects. Dean KK4DAS has been leading 20 members of the Vienna Wireless Society in the construction of N6QW&#8217;s Simple SSB Transceiver, with Dean&#8217;s &#8220;Furlough 40&#8221; additions. This is very FB, and very encouraging. Dean clearly has The Knack. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/04\/16\/homebrew-lives-twenty-n6qw-simple-ssb-transceivers-under-construction-in-northern-virginia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homebrew Lives!  TWENTY N6QW Simple SSB Transceivers Under Construction in Northern Virginia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,41,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs","category-juliano-pete","category-ssb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576","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=4576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4579,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions\/4579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}