{"id":7688,"date":"2013-04-14T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/04\/14\/french-knack-f8ata-f8ke-f8ckh-and-k3dy\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:19:52","slug":"french-knack-f8ata-f8ke-f8ckh-and-k3dy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/04\/14\/french-knack-f8ata-f8ke-f8ckh-and-k3dy\/","title":{"rendered":"French Knack: F8ATA, F8KE, F8CKH, and K3DY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hello Bill, It has been a while! I don’t know if you remember but I emailed you back in September 2010, introducing myself as a fellow amateur listening to your podcasts. I had just moved from France and received back then my FCC vanity callsign K3DY. <\/strong>
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It took me a while to get my ham shack back together but finally I was on the bands again! Recently, I started re reading your book, very inspirational. Since my very first license (as F8CKH) at 16, my interests have always been into the design \/ homebrew as well as QRP & CW. Why on earth would a teenager do that? I think I have the knack. My motto is: “Don’t turn it on, take it apart!!!”. <\/strong>
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Anyway, it has been a lot of fun to work on some various projects (the one in progress now is a LC meter using a LCD display and a PIC 16F627). It took longer than expected to get to that point as I had to work on a PIC programmer interface as well as refresh my C language programming skills! I recently discovered that mouser is offering some nice project enclosures. In the past, my finished products were kind of “ugly” (to the average Joe not us of course!) so I am trying to work on that.<\/strong>
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Oh also, last time I emailed you, I talked about my grand father EF8ETA, F8ATA then F8KE in the late 20s and how seeing his electronic lab and radios when I was 7 or 8 inevitably changed my life! After all this, I – had – to get my license and get involved! My father, also a ham, emailed me a picture of F8KE’s shack in 1929\/1930. My grand father was at the time 19 years old. Also attached to the email are two scans of his QSL cards dated as well 1929 or so. He was using a classic design for the era, based on a Hartley Oscillator. I am trying to imagine how it was to get the knowledge back then on how to build a station (TX, RX, antenna) but also how to get the parts! When people now complain that they can’t finish up a homebrew project because they can’t find a FT50-3 core, well they should think of how it must have been almost 100 years ago. <\/strong>
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Have a great weekend! 73, K3DY Antoine<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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Hello Bill, It has been a while! I don’t know if you remember but I emailed you back in September 2010, introducing myself as a fellow amateur listening to your podcasts. I had just moved from France and received back then my FCC vanity callsign K3DY. It took me a while to get my ham … Continue reading “French Knack: F8ATA, F8KE, F8CKH, and K3DY”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227,103,100,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-france","category-knack-stories","category-old-radio","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688","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=7688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7692,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions\/7692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}