{"id":5406,"date":"2019-05-21T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/05\/21\/fdim-interview-with-ki4io-homebrew-direct-conversion-transceiver\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:58:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:58:37","slug":"fdim-interview-with-ki4io-homebrew-direct-conversion-transceiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/05\/21\/fdim-interview-with-ki4io-homebrew-direct-conversion-transceiver\/","title":{"rendered":"FDIM Interview with KI4IO &#8212; Homebrew Direct Conversion Transceiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/KI4IOshackPicture.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1199\" data-original-width=\"1199\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/KI4IOshackPicture.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p> I<b>&#8216;ve been a big fan of Jerry&#8217;s for several years. He is the <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/the-wizard-of-warrenton-jerry-ki4io.html\">homebrew wizard of Warrenton, Va.<\/a> Warrention is just about 25 miles west of us. Cappuccio the wonder-dog was born on a farm in Warrenton. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>I&#8217;m really glad that our ace correspondent Bob Crane W8SX caught up with Jerry at FDIM. I liked his description of the joy of using a homebrew rig, and of the advantages of direct conversion. Inspiring stuff! Listen to the interview here: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b><a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/KI4IO%20FDIM%202019.m4a\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/KI4IO FDIM 2019.m4a<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/KI4IODCTransceiver.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"867\" data-original-width=\"1199\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/KI4IODCTransceiver.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Be sure to check out the KI4IO page on QRZ.com<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8216;ve been a big fan of Jerry&#8217;s for several years. He is the homebrew wizard of Warrenton, Va. Warrention is just about 25 miles west of us. Cappuccio the wonder-dog was born on a farm in Warrenton. I&#8217;m really glad that our ace correspondent Bob Crane W8SX caught up with Jerry at FDIM. I liked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/05\/21\/fdim-interview-with-ki4io-homebrew-direct-conversion-transceiver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FDIM Interview with KI4IO &#8212; Homebrew Direct Conversion Transceiver&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crane-bob","category-direct-conversion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406","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=5406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5409,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406\/revisions\/5409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}