{"id":6457,"date":"2011-02-19T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/02\/19\/k2zas-dx-100-arrives-at-soldersmoke-hq\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:01:54","slug":"k2zas-dx-100-arrives-at-soldersmoke-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/02\/19\/k2zas-dx-100-arrives-at-soldersmoke-hq\/","title":{"rendered":"K2ZA’s DX-100 Arrives at SolderSmoke HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today was big day here at SolderSmoke HQ. John, K2ZA, and his lovely wife Erika drove down from New Jersey bringing with them the Heathkit DX-100 that John’s dad (now a silent key) had built years ago. John heard me mention my long yearning to once again own a DX-100 (I’d had one as a kid); he very generously decided to give me his dad’s. <\/span><\/p>\n

It’s beautiful. And BIG: Shipping weight: Over 100 pounds. This, gentlemen, is the rig that they were talking about when they first started to refer to certain transmitters as “boatanchors.”<\/span><\/p>\n

After some time on a Variac, I plan on pairing this magnificent transmitter up with a suitable thermionic-based receiver. Maybe the HQ-100. Then I will put it on 75 meter AM and will attempt to establish myself as one of the plate-modulated, big signal anointed, perhaps even attaining “tall ship” status. We can dream…<\/span><\/p>\n

Getting the DX-100 was great, but even nicer was meeting John and Erica. What nice people they are! <\/span><\/p>\n

John and I recorded (in both video and audio) a short segment about the DX-100. I will plug the audio into SolderSmoke #131, and will upload the video to the SolderSmoke YouTube page.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s John with the Drake 2-B, the HT-37, and the INFAMOUS Astatic D-104: <\/span>
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\"\"<\/a>Thanks John!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was big day here at SolderSmoke HQ. John, K2ZA, and his lovely wife Erika drove down from New Jersey bringing with them the Heathkit DX-100 that John’s dad (now a silent key) had built years ago. John heard me mention my long yearning to once again own a DX-100 (I’d had one as a … Continue reading “K2ZA’s DX-100 Arrives at SolderSmoke HQ”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,150,149,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-am","category-dx-100","category-heathkits","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457","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=6457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6460,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions\/6460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}