{"id":6504,"date":"2015-12-05T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T05:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/12\/05\/alan-w2aew-hears-me-on-40-am-with-his-drake-2b\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:07:07","slug":"alan-w2aew-hears-me-on-40-am-with-his-drake-2b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/12\/05\/alan-w2aew-hears-me-on-40-am-with-his-drake-2b\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan W2AEW Hears me on 40 AM with his Drake 2B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vQPIRX_sqTk?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe> <span style=\"color: #262626; display: table-cell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; max-width: 496px; padding-left: 16px; vertical-align: top;\"> <\/span> <span style=\"color: #262626; display: table-cell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; max-width: 496px; padding-left: 16px; vertical-align: top;\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <span style=\"color: #262626; display: table-cell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; max-width: 496px; padding-left: 16px; vertical-align: top;\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<div> <span style=\"color: #262626; display: table-cell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; max-width: 496px; padding-left: 16px; vertical-align: top;\"><b><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div> <span style=\"color: #262626; display: table-cell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; max-width: 496px; padding-left: 16px; vertical-align: top;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div> <span style=\"color: #262626; display: table-cell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; max-width: 496px; padding-left: 16px; vertical-align: top;\"><b>Alan W2AEW writes: <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <span style=\"color: #262626; display: table-cell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; max-width: 496px; padding-left: 16px; vertical-align: top;\"> <\/span> <\/p>\n<div> <span style=\"color: #262626; display: table-cell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; max-width: 496px; padding-left: 16px; vertical-align: top;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p> <span style=\"color: #262626; display: table-cell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; max-width: 496px; padding-left: 16px; vertical-align: top;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <span style=\"color: #262626; display: table-cell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; max-width: 496px; padding-left: 16px; vertical-align: top;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div> <span style=\"color: #262626; display: table-cell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; max-width: 496px; padding-left: 16px; vertical-align: top;\"><b>How appropriate! I was casually listening to 40m AM on my refurbished Drake 2B, and I hear the rotation get passed along to none-other than N2CQR &#8211; the man that got me excited about the 2B in the first place. FB 20 over signal in NJ, OM! I was able to grab the video camera quickly before you signed off. Alan&#8217;s video appears above. <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div> <span style=\"color: #262626; display: table-cell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; max-width: 496px; padding-left: 16px; vertical-align: top;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <span style=\"color: #262626; display: table-cell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; max-width: 496px; padding-left: 16px; vertical-align: top;\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <b>73,<br \/>Alan W2AEW<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <b><i>Holy cow Alan, THE RADIO GODS HAVE SPOKEN! Clearly you need to get on 40 meter AM. Maybe get a DX-60 or something. In your video I spotted several items in your shack that are also in mine: in addition to the 2B, I see a Turner +2 transistorized microphone, and that little (very useful) RadioShack speaker. Glad you heard me OM &#8212; thanks for the recording! <\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <b><i>73 Bill <\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<p> <\/span><b><\/b><i><\/i><u><\/u><sub><\/sub><sup><\/sup><strike><\/strike> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1tcr6xwl97i87jmhcflz.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1tcr6xwl97i87jmhcflz.jpeg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan W2AEW writes: How appropriate! I was casually listening to 40m AM on my refurbished Drake 2B, and I hear the rotation get passed along to none-other than N2CQR &#8211; the man that got me excited about the 2B in the first place. FB 20 over signal in NJ, OM! I was able to grab &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/12\/05\/alan-w2aew-hears-me-on-40-am-with-his-drake-2b\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alan W2AEW Hears me on 40 AM with his Drake 2B&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,6,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-am","category-drake-2b","category-wolke-alan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504","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=6504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6506,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions\/6506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}