{"id":715,"date":"2023-08-15T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/08\/15\/the-wizard-of-kerala-india-denny-vu2dgr-sdr-and-hdr\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:04","slug":"the-wizard-of-kerala-india-denny-vu2dgr-sdr-and-hdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/08\/15\/the-wizard-of-kerala-india-denny-vu2dgr-sdr-and-hdr\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wizard of Kerala (India) &#8212; Denny VU2DGR &#8212; SDR and HDR"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image_1753056191.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"675\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image_1753056191.png\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>His signal was just booming in on 20 meter SSB yesterday evening. It was one of the strongest signals I&#8217;ve heard from India. I wasn&#8217;t able to get through the pileup, but I heard mention of a homebrew station at his end&#8230; Sure enough a look at his QRZ.com site shows that a LOT of solder has been melted in his shack. Both SDR and HDR stuff. Tube projects including an 807 amplifier made from &#8220;components collected from the scrapyard.&#8221; And a homebrew 20 meter Moxon. Check it out: <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/VU2DGR\"><b>https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/VU2DGR <\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>FB Denny!<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Kerala is on the southwest tip of India. It is something of a hotbed of technological innovation. My only Indian contact using my current series of homebrew dual-banders was with VU3TPW &#8212; Renju is also in Kerala. <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiiNw7mkNnp5J-JSMOplNfxoi91Dch5IjyytHXMPBy9h_dtnsyWf3Y0qiXtuRBQ3UpPzlRapAWzyAbueOAqhE4hP8QI6ZMFzktIrvKp-LDosL4tzKi3QTN3C9qkCnV3-xw_mDA-a5VDQBgkyanLqm8ctA1BA8apW2kLRC9TSkFzzGjTLeMxPv4eJJusmx0\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1254\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image_1753056197.png\" width=\"346\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His signal was just booming in on 20 meter SSB yesterday evening. It was one of the strongest signals I&#8217;ve heard from India. I wasn&#8217;t able to get through the pileup, but I heard mention of a homebrew station at his end&#8230; Sure enough a look at his QRZ.com site shows that a LOT of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/08\/15\/the-wizard-of-kerala-india-denny-vu2dgr-sdr-and-hdr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Wizard of Kerala (India) &#8212; Denny VU2DGR &#8212; SDR and HDR&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,180,40,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-moxon","category-sdr","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","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=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}