{"id":7775,"date":"2020-03-21T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/03\/21\/will-kf4izes-beautiful-boatanchors\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:29:09","slug":"will-kf4izes-beautiful-boatanchors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/03\/21\/will-kf4izes-beautiful-boatanchors\/","title":{"rendered":"Will, KF4IZE&#8217;s Beautiful Boatanchors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/KF4IZE.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/KF4IZE.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Wow, check out the paint job on that SP-600. Nice work Will. Hammarlund should have done it that way. And I should have kept the one I had years ago. I would have painted mine that way. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kf4IZESP600.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"675\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kf4IZESP600.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>And my DX-100 (given to me by John K2ZA) has similar vernier reduction drives. <\/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>I run into Will KF4FZE fairly often on 40 meters. He and I were in the same (very cool) part of the U.S. Army (in different times). Will is retired but he still works at Ft. Bragg. <\/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>I heard Will on 40 SSB yesterday afternoon. I was listening with my HRO dial receiver (that I am now working on). I shot quick video: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gMrp197p2Bw\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>Will was on a Swan Cygnet 270 that he had recently picked up on e-bay. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>More on Will KF4IZE here: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/lookup\/d\/kf4ize\"><b>https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/lookup\/d\/kf4ize<\/b><\/a><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, check out the paint job on that SP-600. Nice work Will. Hammarlund should have done it that way. And I should have kept the one I had years ago. I would have painted mine that way. And my DX-100 (given to me by John K2ZA) has similar vernier reduction drives. I run into Will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/03\/21\/will-kf4izes-beautiful-boatanchors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Will, KF4IZE&#8217;s Beautiful Boatanchors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,176,149,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-40-meters","category-hammarlund","category-heathkits","category-old-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775","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=7775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7778,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775\/revisions\/7778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}