{"id":6876,"date":"2020-07-18T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/07\/18\/overcoming-the-complexity-of-the-michigan-mighty-mite-walters-sunrise-net-special\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:53:08","slug":"overcoming-the-complexity-of-the-michigan-mighty-mite-walters-sunrise-net-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/07\/18\/overcoming-the-complexity-of-the-michigan-mighty-mite-walters-sunrise-net-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming the Complexity of the Michigan Mighty Mite: Walter’s Sunrise Net Special"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From Walter <\/b>KA4KXX<\/b>
June 21, 2020<\/b>

<\/b> Michigan Mighty-Mite: Why So Complicated?<\/b>

<\/b> <\/span>The April 2020 issue of QRP Quarterly magazine featured an article by Bob Rosier K4OCE which included a schematic for a \u201cTen Minute Transmitter\u201d by G4RAW (SK), which apparently first appeared in SPRAT 82 in 1996. <\/b>
<\/span>It is even simpler than the Michigan Mighty Mite, so this transmitter can truly be built on a solderless breadboard in about 15 minutes, because a complex coil is not required. <\/b>
The only tuning needed was for me to establish the correct value of the output series capacitor. <\/b>
<\/span>This rig allowed me to check-in to the Sunrise Net (see details in blue text on my QRZ page) today on my very first attempt, and landed me a 549 signal report from 250 miles away.<\/b>
<\/span>The first photo shows the transmitter connected to a Transmit\/Receive Switch mounted in an Altoids box. In the Transmit position the antenna is disconnected from my 1979 Heathkit HR-1680 receiver, which then coincidentally supplies a sidetone at an ideal volume level. That little black pushbutton which can be seen in the second photo serves as my key, and works just fine for a five-minute daily QNI on the Sunrise Net.<\/b>
<\/span>Of course, part of the secret is having a crystal exactly on the Net frequency, and I have a few left, free to whomever in the Eastern U.S. is interested in building one of these simple Sunrise Net Special Transmitters and participating in our Net. <\/b> <\/p>\n

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From Walter KA4KXX June 21, 2020 Michigan Mighty-Mite: Why So Complicated? The April 2020 issue of QRP Quarterly magazine featured an article by Bob Rosier K4OCE which included a schematic for a \u201cTen Minute Transmitter\u201d by G4RAW (SK), which apparently first appeared in SPRAT 82 in 1996. It is even simpler than the Michigan Mighty … Continue reading “Overcoming the Complexity of the Michigan Mighty Mite: Walter’s Sunrise Net Special”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,465,24,85,87,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-40-meters","category-cw-2","category-michigan-mighty-mite","category-minimalist-radio","category-qrp","category-sprat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876","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=6876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6880,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876\/revisions\/6880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}