{"id":7894,"date":"2012-01-04T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/homebrew-ssb-portable-from-australia\/"},"modified":"2012-01-04T09:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T22:59:00","slug":"homebrew-ssb-portable-from-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/homebrew-ssb-portable-from-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebrew SSB Portable from Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pB1IC2qRw6g\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Peter Parker, VK3YE, is one of the true gurus of QRP phone. When I first started building DSB and later SSB rigs, I frequently found inspiration and ideas in Peter&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/home.alphalink.com.au\/%7Eparkerp\/\">articles and web sites<\/a>. This morning I came across this amazing video, produced just days ago, showing Peter and his new SSB transceiver in operation from a beautiful Australian beach. The rig is a 40 meter version of Farhan&#8217;s BITX-20. (I really like the frequency dial.)<\/p>\n<p>Peter describes his rig this way:<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;\">It&#8217;s made from scratch, ugly style, with 99% being from the original design.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;\">It covers 7 to 7.2 MHz, using a 9.05 MHz IF and a 2 MHz VFO.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;\">I used a different microphone amplifier (I got more and clearer output than <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;\"> the original with my electret mic) and a BD139 driver transistor. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;\">The PA circuitry is also slightly different.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;\">It&#8217;s been about my easiest and most trouble-free transceiver project to <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;\"> date. Performance is excellent and a tribute to Ashhar. The furthest distance so <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;\"> far was a 5\/6 report from ZL (about 2000 &#8211; 3000km away).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The grand finale of the video is a four-way contact with homebrew rigs in use at all four stations. Excellent. Thanks a lot Peter<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Here is Peter&#8217;s web site: <a href=\"http:\/\/home.alphalink.com.au\/%7Eparkerp\/\">http:\/\/home.alphalink.com.au\/~parkerp\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a>Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a>Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Parker, VK3YE, is one of the true gurus of QRP phone. When I first started building DSB and later SSB rigs, I frequently found inspiration and ideas in Peter&#8217;s articles and web sites. This morning I came across this amazing video, produced just days ago, showing Peter and his new SSB transceiver in operation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/homebrew-ssb-portable-from-australia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homebrew SSB Portable from Australia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28,66,36,23,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-bitx20","category-farhan","category-parker-peter","category-ssb","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894","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=7894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}