{"id":6484,"date":"2009-02-27T06:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/02\/27\/out-of-the-sonoran-desert-the-gnat\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:04:59","slug":"out-of-the-sonoran-desert-the-gnat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/02\/27\/out-of-the-sonoran-desert-the-gnat\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Sonoran Desert&#8230; The Gnat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgW5ZQD7_fI_K38rvWBPwxk8Bi5McezFU_ktaGUsiyV1JNimapGjvPVUYCCrtgyH-YbwxwYLRFfJp-P6FxEZIded3CWCGekRKR3eUb5FQ4HeFS3jDOjb-vV4ionLhhuOWyMd2zK_u9ZtTE\/s1600-h\/sonoran-desert-lg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 313px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sonoran-desert-lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307359392661251602\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;ve been away for a few days, down in the shadow of Vesuvius, but I&#8217;m back in the shack now, and this morning I&#8217;ve been looking more closely at the latest creation out of the Sonoran Desert:<br \/>Chris Trask, N7ZWY, has given us the design for an amazing rig he calls &#8220;The Gnat&#8221; (Chris has a deep interest in the flora and fauna of the Sonoran Desert.) Like the ET-1 and FETer, The Gnat is an HF transceiver using only one active device. Chris uses a 2N2222 transistor. But unlike the other one-device rigs, The Gnat uses no switches or relays for T\/R transitioning &#8212; his rig goes from Receive to Transmit just by pushing the key down. The receiver is, of course, a regen. And get this: The Gnat can produce somewhere in the area of .5 watts to 2 watts of RF. Wow, that&#8217;s one big bug! There&#8217;s definitely a lot of Knack in The Gnat. Check it out:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.home.earthlink.net\/%7Echristrask\/Gnat%2040.pdf\">http:\/\/www.home.earthlink.net\/~christrask\/Gnat%2040.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been away for a few days, down in the shadow of Vesuvius, but I&#8217;m back in the shack now, and this morning I&#8217;ve been looking more closely at the latest creation out of the Sonoran Desert:Chris Trask, N7ZWY, has given us the design for an amazing rig he calls &#8220;The Gnat&#8221; (Chris has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/02\/27\/out-of-the-sonoran-desert-the-gnat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Out of the Sonoran Desert&#8230; The Gnat!&#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":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minimalist-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484","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=6484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6486,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484\/revisions\/6486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}