{"id":5607,"date":"2018-02-18T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/02\/18\/hb2hb-qso-with-kc1fsz-and-his-al-fresco-scratch-built-bitx\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:19:38","slug":"hb2hb-qso-with-kc1fsz-and-his-al-fresco-scratch-built-bitx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/02\/18\/hb2hb-qso-with-kc1fsz-and-his-al-fresco-scratch-built-bitx\/","title":{"rendered":"HB2HB QSO with KC1FSZ and his Al Fresco Scratch-built BITX"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I had some good luck on the ham bands last weekend. First, I was called by Bruce KC1FSZ — this time he was on his Al Fresco scratch-built BITX-on-a-board. FB. The next day, I called CQ on what seemed like an empty 17 meter band. I heard someone come back — it sounded like DX. I had to swing the Moxon a bit — oddly, I thought, to the south-east. FR5FC was calling me from Reunion Island. TRGHS. <\/i><\/b>

<\/i><\/b> Here’s a follow-up message from Bruce: <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Hi Bill:<\/b><\/div>\n


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Great to catch up with you on 40m yesterday. I was using the Peppermint II which is a scratch-build of the BITX-40 for the most part, although I did my own digital VFO\/BFO and made a few other modifications in order to be able to use it on 80m. It took about 8 months of noodling to get the thing to work, but it was a great learning experience. <\/b><\/div>\n

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As discussed, I\u2019m working on a 24V power supply (LM723 + 2N3055) and a push-pull IRF510 final so that I can get some more power. <\/b><\/div>\n

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I got a few more Williams-Sonoma Peppermint Bark tins off of EBay so I\u2019m ready to start boxing things up as soon as the linear is working. <\/b><\/div>\n

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73s,<\/b><\/div>\n

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Bruce KC1FSZ<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had some good luck on the ham bands last weekend. First, I was called by Bruce KC1FSZ — this time he was on his Al Fresco scratch-built BITX-on-a-board. FB. The next day, I called CQ on what seemed like an empty 17 meter band. I heard someone come back — it sounded like DX. … Continue reading “HB2HB QSO with KC1FSZ and his Al Fresco Scratch-built BITX”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,28,65,46,456],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-40-meters","category-bitx20","category-bitx40module","category-hb2hb","category-reunion-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607","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=5607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5609,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions\/5609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}