{"id":6730,"date":"2021-05-18T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/05\/18\/hrdx-interviews-paul-taylor-vk3hn\/"},"modified":"2021-05-18T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T00:22:00","slug":"hrdx-interviews-paul-taylor-vk3hn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/05\/18\/hrdx-interviews-paul-taylor-vk3hn\/","title":{"rendered":"HRDX Interviews Paul Taylor VK3HN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WT-P157RoNA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Wow, Paul Taylor, VK3HN is working on homebrew rig #11. FB. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>This interview was quite thought-provoking. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; I agree with Paul about the importance of not being dogmatic about <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>always staying under 5 watts. It sounds like Paul is having fun with his <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>100 watt SOTA project. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b>&#8212; It was great to hear that Leon VK2DOB is still active in ham radio and running a QRP company in VK. FB. An article by Leon on CMOS mixers in the summer 1999 issue of SPRAT played a key role in my understanding how switching mixers really work. I put Leon&#8217;s diagram in my book <i>SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics. <\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><i><b><br \/><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b>&#8212; On blowing up the finals in simple HB gear. The first real transmitter that I built was the VXO-controlled 6 watter from<i> QRP Classics <\/i>by the ARRL. It had a 36 volt Zener diode across the collectors of the final. This was to prevent the kind of final destruction Paul suffered up on that summit: &#8220;D2 is used to clamp the collector voltage waveform to protect the output transistors if the transmitter is operated into an open circuit or high SWR antenna system.&#8221; Maybe we should revive the use of that simple SWR protection circuit, especially for SOTA rigs. <\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, Paul Taylor, VK3HN is working on homebrew rig #11. FB. This interview was quite thought-provoking. &#8212; I agree with Paul about the importance of not being dogmatic about always staying under 5 watts. It sounds like Paul is having fun with his 100 watt SOTA project. &#8212; It was great to hear that Leon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/05\/18\/hrdx-interviews-paul-taylor-vk3hn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HRDX Interviews Paul Taylor VK3HN&#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":[29,34,87,406,300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-mixer-theory","category-qrp","category-tasmania","category-taylor-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730","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=6730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}