{"id":7654,"date":"2023-06-17T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/06\/17\/sam-wn5c-builds-a-michigan-mighty-mite-and-takes-it-to-lake-thunderbird\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:23","slug":"sam-wn5c-builds-a-michigan-mighty-mite-and-takes-it-to-lake-thunderbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/06\/17\/sam-wn5c-builds-a-michigan-mighty-mite-and-takes-it-to-lake-thunderbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam WN5C Builds a Michigan Mighty Mite and Takes it to Lake Thunderbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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Sam WN5C built a Michigan Mighty Mite and then went the extra mile by putting it on the air from a field location. And what a great name this location has for a QRP operation: Lake Thunderbird. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Sam wrote up his experiences for K4SWL’s QRPer blog: <\/b><\/div>\n

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https:\/\/qrper.com\/2023\/05\/guest-post-lake-thunderbird-k-2792-with-a-homebrew-transmitter\/ <\/a> <\/b><\/div>\n

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Below is a picture of the rig. NOTE THE LOW-PASS FILTER. FB OM. We wouldn’t want that rig tearing up the electromagnetic spectrum. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Looking ahead, Sam writes: <\/b><\/div>\n

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Next step is a DC receiver (maybe the high school receiver?) and then a more substantial transmitter married together, I think. This is all incredibly fun.<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
Thanks Sam! <\/b><\/div>\n
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Sam WN5C built a Michigan Mighty Mite and then went the extra mile by putting it on the air from a field location. And what a great name this location has for a QRP operation: Lake Thunderbird. Sam wrote up his experiences for K4SWL’s QRPer blog: https:\/\/qrper.com\/2023\/05\/guest-post-lake-thunderbird-k-2792-with-a-homebrew-transmitter\/ Below is a picture of the rig. NOTE … Continue reading “Sam WN5C Builds a Michigan Mighty Mite and Takes it to Lake Thunderbird”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,24,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-direct-conversion","category-michigan-mighty-mite","category-qrp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654","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=7654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7657,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions\/7657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}