{"id":6881,"date":"2017-08-06T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/08\/06\/thermatrons-al-fresco-w4gons-fb-hb-am-rig\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:53:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:53:34","slug":"thermatrons-al-fresco-w4gons-fb-hb-am-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/08\/06\/thermatrons-al-fresco-w4gons-fb-hb-am-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermatrons Al Fresco:  W4GON&#8217;s FB HB AM Rig"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/W4GONHomebrew02.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"899\" data-original-width=\"1199\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/W4GONHomebrew02.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b>I was listening to 7290 kHz with my BITX this morning and I heard W4GON say his AM rig is homebrew. So of course I fired up the DX-100 and the HQ-100 and gave Joel a call. Conditions were terrible but we had some support from the radio gods. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>From Joel&#8217;s QRZ.com page: &#8220;It uses a pair of 6L6s in Push-Pull Class AB1 high level plate and screen modulating a 6146. I still have a lot of work to do on this rig, like building an enclosure, but it works and I just couldn&#8217;t help but getting on the air with it!&#8221;<\/b> <b> <\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/W4GONHomebrew2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"899\" data-original-width=\"1199\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/W4GONHomebrew2.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>I think it is a thing of beauty.<\/b> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to 7290 kHz with my BITX this morning and I heard W4GON say his AM rig is homebrew. So of course I fired up the DX-100 and the HQ-100 and gave Joel a call. Conditions were terrible but we had some support from the radio gods. From Joel&#8217;s QRZ.com page: &#8220;It uses &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/08\/06\/thermatrons-al-fresco-w4gons-fb-hb-am-rig\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thermatrons Al Fresco:  W4GON&#8217;s FB HB AM Rig&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,130,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-40-meters","category-am","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881","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=6881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6884,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions\/6884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}