{"id":753,"date":"2012-06-28T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/angelos-atr-4\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:06:59","slug":"angelos-atr-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/angelos-atr-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelo&#8217;s ATR-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ATR-4.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ATR-4.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>On Monday I was talking to Angelo, W8ERN, on 17 meters. He told me about an SSB transceiver that he had designed for ELMAC, the ATR-4. Take a look at that beauty. The amazing thing is the year in which Angelo created this rig: 1959! Wow, talk about being ahead of its time! Sadly, ELMAC decided not to produce it, and only a few prototypes exist. It is 80-10 meters, SSB and CW featuring a crystal filter. It is a transistor-tube hybrid with a pair of 6146&#8217;s in the final. Nice job Angelo. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday I was talking to Angelo, W8ERN, on 17 meters. He told me about an SSB transceiver that he had designed for ELMAC, the ATR-4. Take a look at that beauty. The amazing thing is the year in which Angelo created this rig: 1959! Wow, talk about being ahead of its time! Sadly, ELMAC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/angelos-atr-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Angelo&#8217;s ATR-4&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radio-history","category-ssb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","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=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}