{"id":7111,"date":"2023-07-11T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/07\/11\/homebrew-in-namibia-joe-noci-v51jn-the-wizard-of-sawkopmund\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:05","slug":"homebrew-in-namibia-joe-noci-v51jn-the-wizard-of-sawkopmund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/07\/11\/homebrew-in-namibia-joe-noci-v51jn-the-wizard-of-sawkopmund\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebrew in Namibia — Joe Noci V51JN — — The Wizard of Sawkopmund"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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Here at SolderSmoke I like to highlight the homebrew adventures of far-flung radio builders. Joe V51JN melts solder in an especially exotic location: on the edge of the Namib desert. He is in a very interesting place: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swakopmund<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n

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Here is Joe’s QRZ.com page: https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/V51JN<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Joe recently posted<\/a> on the Amateur QRP Radio Facebook group: <\/b><\/p>\n

I am not on the air much – here in Swakopmund ( Namibia) we have quite bad RFI from mains borne RF control signals for geysers, pumps, etc and 40M is unuseable, 30M almost usable and 20M sort of useable.. Complaint to CRAN – Our Radio Ministry – achieve nothing…So I do mobile out in the desert in the 4X4 when I can! I enjoy building radios – here are some photos – first is a 5watt 7MHz to 21MHz all band SSB rig – all homebrew, inc crystal filters, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>etc. PA is a push-pull LDMOS amp, 5W PEP. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Thanks to Doug KB8M for alerting me to this amazing work. <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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Here at SolderSmoke I like to highlight the homebrew adventures of far-flung radio builders. Joe V51JN melts solder in an especially exotic location: on the edge of the Namib desert. He is in a very interesting place: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swakopmund Here is Joe’s QRZ.com page: https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/V51JN Joe recently posted on the Amateur QRP Radio Facebook group: I … Continue reading “Homebrew in Namibia — Joe Noci V51JN — — The Wizard of Sawkopmund”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-namibia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7111","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7116,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7111\/revisions\/7116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}