{"id":7745,"date":"2020-04-20T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/04\/20\/dean-kk4das-builds-ssb-rig-makes-first-contact\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:26:08","slug":"dean-kk4das-builds-ssb-rig-makes-first-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/04\/20\/dean-kk4das-builds-ssb-rig-makes-first-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean KK4DAS Builds SSB rig, Makes First Contact."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/KK4DASFirstQSO.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/KK4DASFirstQSO.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>You can almost see the excitement in the notes (al fresco!) of Dean KK4DAS. He made his first QSO with a homebrew transceiver this week. Not long ago Dean was taking his first tentative homebrew steps with a Michigan Mighty Mite. Wow, he has made great progress. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Read all about it on Dean&#8217;s blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/kk4das.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/furlough-40-first-contact.html\">https:\/\/kk4das.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/furlough-40-first-contact.html<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Congratulations Dean! <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can almost see the excitement in the notes (al fresco!) of Dean KK4DAS. He made his first QSO with a homebrew transceiver this week. Not long ago Dean was taking his first tentative homebrew steps with a Michigan Mighty Mite. Wow, he has made great progress. Read all about it on Dean&#8217;s blog: https:\/\/kk4das.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/furlough-40-first-contact.html &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/04\/20\/dean-kk4das-builds-ssb-rig-makes-first-contact\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dean KK4DAS Builds SSB rig, Makes First Contact.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-juliano-pete","category-ssb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745","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=7745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7747,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions\/7747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}