{"id":5187,"date":"2008-05-14T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/05\/14\/from-sicily-an-ssb-transceiver-using-only-5-tubes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:29:31","slug":"from-sicily-an-ssb-transceiver-using-only-5-tubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/05\/14\/from-sicily-an-ssb-transceiver-using-only-5-tubes\/","title":{"rendered":"From Sicily:   An SSB Transceiver using only 5 tubes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh3XW5z4RgOvNDkp_GPy2GHS8vl-6BGNvutfG5u61tTGZwSfNN9oMceaxf1HqsHqhR8NjdZge2pum1Iy6jc8CE5wSjPSp3jsDC-NXOLvLPwI6I3FeVloj4ef2MYWfooWOf_wop41SgcAk8\/s1600-h\/image019.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/image019.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200077072572082818\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>It&#8217;s 5:30 am. I&#8217;m in the shack with a cup of coffee. The only sounds are birdsongs from the window and an Italian 80 meter SSB QSO from my Drake 2-B. Life is good.<\/p>\n<p>And it got better when I found the rig pictured above. It is the work of Andrea IW9HJV and Johnny IW9ARO, two obvious victims of &#8220;The Knack&#8221; from Sicily.<\/p>\n<p>It is a beautiful 20 meter SSB transceiver. And it uses just 5 tubes. While it doesn&#8217;t have the bi-directionality of the BITX-20 (you can&#8217;t really do that with tubes) it does share the BITX-20&#8217;s simplicity and elegance of design.<\/p>\n<p>The web site of Andrea and Johnny is another work of art. Check it out!<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webalice.it\/hotwater\/RTX5x20.htm\">http:\/\/www.webalice.it\/hotwater\/RTX5x20.htm<\/a><br \/>Bravo Andrea! Bravo Johnny! Bravissimo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 5:30 am. I&#8217;m in the shack with a cup of coffee. The only sounds are birdsongs from the window and an Italian 80 meter SSB QSO from my Drake 2-B. Life is good. And it got better when I found the rig pictured above. It is the work of Andrea IW9HJV and Johnny IW9ARO, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/05\/14\/from-sicily-an-ssb-transceiver-using-only-5-tubes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Sicily:   An SSB Transceiver using only 5 tubes!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy","category-sicily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187","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=5187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5189,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions\/5189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}