{"id":7166,"date":"2015-10-15T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/15\/hb2hb-homebrew-rigs-on-both-sides-of-the-contact\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:28:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:28:32","slug":"hb2hb-homebrew-rigs-on-both-sides-of-the-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/15\/hb2hb-homebrew-rigs-on-both-sides-of-the-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"HB2HB  &#8212; Homebrew Rigs on Both Sides of the Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GW3UZS.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GW3UZS.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>As I&#8217;ve been saying on the podcast, contacts in which both operators are using homebrew gear are increasingly rare, especially on SSB, and especially, it seems, in the USA. So let&#8217;s chronicle these rare events. I&#8217;ve started a Label here on the blog called HB2HB. Send me reports of good HB2HB contacts &#8212; recent or past &#8212; and I&#8217;ll try to get them onto the blog. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>I&#8217;ve already described my recent QSO with Pete, N6QW. My second HB2HB from this location took place on 12 October 2015. I talked to Jeff GW3UZS in Cardiff, Wales on 17 meters. I was using my trusty BITX17. Jeff was running a much more sophisticated homebrew rig &#8212; see above. More details on Jeff&#8217;s beautiful rigs are on his QRZ.com page&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/GW3UZS\"><strong>https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/GW3UZS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <strong>So send in HB2HB reports. These contacts are almost in &#8220;endangered species&#8221; category &#8212; they deserve to be preserved! <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve been saying on the podcast, contacts in which both operators are using homebrew gear are increasingly rare, especially on SSB, and especially, it seems, in the USA. So let&#8217;s chronicle these rare events. I&#8217;ve started a Label here on the blog called HB2HB. Send me reports of good HB2HB contacts &#8212; recent or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/15\/hb2hb-homebrew-rigs-on-both-sides-of-the-contact\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HB2HB  &#8212; Homebrew Rigs on Both Sides of the Contact&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,40,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hb2hb","category-sdr","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166","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=7166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7168,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions\/7168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}