{"id":7677,"date":"2009-01-01T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/01\/01\/my-75-meter-kickpanel-dsb-rig\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:18:49","slug":"my-75-meter-kickpanel-dsb-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/01\/01\/my-75-meter-kickpanel-dsb-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"My 75 Meter “Kickpanel” DSB Rig"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve been talking about it so long, I thought I should let you guys have a look at it. The box on the top is N3ZI’s FB freq counter<\/a>. It sits on the top cover of the TX — the cover is made from the side panel of a dead computer that I found on a street in London. The metal cabinet is a “kickpanel” — the kind of thing they often put on the bottoms of frequently used doors. Mine was purchased at Farmer Brother’s Hardware on Fulham Road, London. One switch is for T\/R. The other is for spotting (netting). I put the LED in there so I wouldn’t forget to turn it off (and because Billy likes LEDs!) Circuit diagrams and LTSpice models appear in previous blog posts.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Moving inside, we see that the “chassis” is actually a kitchen cutting board, this one from a Dyas store in Windsor, England. In the lower left there’s a board with the AF (mic) amp. Center front is the VFO box (elevated above the main chassis by wooden blocks in order to put the tuning cap in a comfortable position). The balanced modulator is on the left. The long rectangular board in the center-right is the 4 stage amplifier. Note the black wire suspended above the connectors — that’s an antenna for the oscillator — it allows me to hear the oscillator signal with my Drake 2-B while in “spotting” mode (while putting the TX and the RX on the same freq.)<\/p>\n

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM ROME!<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been talking about it so long, I thought I should let you guys have a look at it. The box on the top is N3ZI’s FB freq counter. It sits on the top cover of the TX — the cover is made from the side panel of a dead computer that I found on … Continue reading “My 75 Meter “Kickpanel” DSB Rig”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dsb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677","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=7677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7679,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677\/revisions\/7679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}