{"id":6911,"date":"2018-04-22T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/04\/22\/kc1fszs-above-board-al-fresco-free-range-qro-4-foot-long-wood-based-bitx\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:56:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:56:02","slug":"kc1fszs-above-board-al-fresco-free-range-qro-4-foot-long-wood-based-bitx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/04\/22\/kc1fszs-above-board-al-fresco-free-range-qro-4-foot-long-wood-based-bitx\/","title":{"rendered":"KC1FSZ’s Above Board, Al Fresco, Free Range, QRO, 4-Foot-Long, Wood-Based BITX"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DON’T BOX IT UP BRUCE! LET THAT RIG LIVE FREE AND BREATHE! <\/b>

<\/b> COULD THIS BE THE WORLD’S BIGGEST BITX?<\/b><\/div>\n
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First off, congrats on back-to-back SPRAT covers. <\/b><\/div>\n

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I\u2019ve succeeded in my QRO quest. Now I\u2019m running the finals from 28V using a home-brew linear power supply and getting about 20W out. LM723 + 2N3055\u2019s. I\u2019m making a lot more contacts too. The only problem is that the \u201cPeppermint Line\u201d is close to 4 feet long now! (Photo below). I don\u2019t know how N6QW gets his rigs packed into such small cases. Putting the various boards in edge-wise will probably help a lot, so that\u2019s going to be my approach to the final packaging job.<\/b><\/div>\n

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73s, <\/b><\/div>\n

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Bruce KC1FSZ<\/b><\/div>\n
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DON’T BOX IT UP BRUCE! LET THAT RIG LIVE FREE AND BREATHE! COULD THIS BE THE WORLD’S BIGGEST BITX? Hi Guys: First off, congrats on back-to-back SPRAT covers. I\u2019ve succeeded in my QRO quest. Now I\u2019m running the finals from 28V using a home-brew linear power supply and getting about 20W out. LM723 + 2N3055\u2019s. … Continue reading “KC1FSZ’s Above Board, Al Fresco, Free Range, QRO, 4-Foot-Long, Wood-Based BITX”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx","category-bitx20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911","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=6911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6914,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911\/revisions\/6914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}