{"id":7987,"date":"2020-07-27T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/07\/27\/paul-taylors-quarantine-summit-prowler-7-and-some-radio-archaeology\/"},"modified":"2020-07-27T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T00:18:00","slug":"paul-taylors-quarantine-summit-prowler-7-and-some-radio-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/07\/27\/paul-taylors-quarantine-summit-prowler-7-and-some-radio-archaeology\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Taylor&#8217;s Quarantine &#8220;Summit Prowler 7&#8221;  and some Radio Archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DOKrSkYNTxc\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>Paul Taylor VK3HN has really outdone himself in this video (above) and <a href=\"https:\/\/vk3hn.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/26\/something-old-something-new-a-four-band-5w-50w-ssb-cw-transceiver-summit-prowler-7\/\">blog post<\/a>. He describes coming across a somewhat mysterious homebrew SSB exciter with some cryptic markings on it. Paul eventually figures them out. We still don&#8217;t know who the builder VK3WAC was &#8212; can anyone find him in their logbooks? <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>As Paul goes through the description of the transceiver he built around the mystery exciter, he mentions a number of hombew heroes including Farhan VU2ESE, Peter DK7IH, Eamon EI9GQ (I have to get his book!), and Don W6JL. Also, our beloved SSDRA book plays a prominent role in the story. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Paul&#8217;s video is really beautiful &#8212; at one point the camera pans the landscape and we see kangaroos in the field. It is also refreshing &#8212; as we suffer in the heat of the northern hemisphere summer &#8212; to see Paul and his friends out on the summits in their winter coats and hats. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>It looks to me as if Paul built this rig during the current emergency, so I will list it as a Quarantine rig. Every dark cloud has a silver lining, and Paul&#8217;s rig has added a bit of silver to the dark COVID cloud. Thanks Paul. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/vk3hn.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/26\/something-old-something-new-a-four-band-5w-50w-ssb-cw-transceiver-summit-prowler-7\/\"><b>https:\/\/vk3hn.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/26\/something-old-something-new-a-four-band-5w-50w-ssb-cw-transceiver-summit-prowler-7\/<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Taylor VK3HN has really outdone himself in this video (above) and blog post. He describes coming across a somewhat mysterious homebrew SSB exciter with some cryptic markings on it. Paul eventually figures them out. We still don&#8217;t know who the builder VK3WAC was &#8212; can anyone find him in their logbooks? As Paul goes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/07\/27\/paul-taylors-quarantine-summit-prowler-7-and-some-radio-archaeology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paul Taylor&#8217;s Quarantine &#8220;Summit Prowler 7&#8221;  and some Radio Archaeology&#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":[29,66,16,270,23,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-farhan","category-filters","category-quarantine","category-ssb","category-ssdra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7987","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=7987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}