{"id":4719,"date":"2017-06-18T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/06\/18\/a-fishy-rig-herring-aid-five-tuna-tin-two-vu2xvr-key\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:40:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:40:02","slug":"a-fishy-rig-herring-aid-five-tuna-tin-two-vu2xvr-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/06\/18\/a-fishy-rig-herring-aid-five-tuna-tin-two-vu2xvr-key\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fishy Rig: Herring Aid Five, Tuna Tin Two, VU2XVR Key"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Haunted by a fear of rapid expulsion from the QRP Hall of Fame, I decided that I should immediately do something to establish some form of QRP street cred. Looking around the shack, I realized that all of the ingredients were there: My Herring Aid Five<\/a> Direct Conversion receiver (completed after only 38 years), my Tuna Tin Two<\/a> transmitter, the VU2XVR key<\/a> that Farhan gave me, one 7050 kc FT243 crystal. I put it all on a piece of scrap plywood. A couple of nice connectors from W8NSA supported the DPDT T\/R switch and the coax connector. I keep the receiver LO running all the time. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Now, let’s be clear: running 250 milliwatts, rock bound with a Direct Conversion receiver that tunes both sides of zero beat is not for the faint of heart. The log book does not fill up rapidly. But hey, I made one contact the following morning. K1PUG said I was 559 in Connecticut.<\/b> <\/div>\n
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