{"id":6809,"date":"2013-03-16T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/03\/16\/qrp-ssb-with-a-new-rig\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:43:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:43:36","slug":"qrp-ssb-with-a-new-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/03\/16\/qrp-ssb-with-a-new-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"QRP SSB with a New Rig"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/KX3_1920.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"165\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/KX3_1920.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong>Kelly, WB0WQS, was trying out a new KX3 that his wife had given him as a present. The radio gods must like that low-power rig because, in what seems like a deliberate demonstration of the awesome power of QRP phone, Kelly&#8217;s first QSO was with another QRP operator: me! The sun was going down and taking 17 meters with it, but neither of us missed a word. We talked about SolderSmoke and our mutual friend, Jerry, NR5A &#8212; Kelly had known Jerry when they were teenage hams. Good luck with the new rig Kelly! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly, WB0WQS, was trying out a new KX3 that his wife had given him as a present. The radio gods must like that low-power rig because, in what seems like a deliberate demonstration of the awesome power of QRP phone, Kelly&#8217;s first QSO was with another QRP operator: me! The sun was going down and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/03\/16\/qrp-ssb-with-a-new-rig\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;QRP SSB with a New Rig&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,87,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-17-meters","category-qrp","category-ssb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809","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=6809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6811,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions\/6811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}