{"id":8092,"date":"2020-02-22T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/02\/22\/vk3hns-am-pulse-width-modulated-homebrew-transmitter\/"},"modified":"2020-02-22T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T23:57:00","slug":"vk3hns-am-pulse-width-modulated-homebrew-transmitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/02\/22\/vk3hns-am-pulse-width-modulated-homebrew-transmitter\/","title":{"rendered":"VK3HN&#8217;s AM Pulse Width Modulated Homebrew Transmitter"},"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\/oHkqW84h8ZM\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>I&#8217;m still working on trying to match the excellent results Paul achieved with his AM receiver. Then this morning I wake up to a Hack-A-Day article describing his even more impressive achievement with his AM transmitter. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>There was one line from the <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2020\/02\/20\/stout-homebrew-radio-pumps-out-200w-of-am-goodness\/\">Hack-A-Day article<\/a> that made me think of Pete Juliano: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <span style=\"font-family: , , , sans-serif; font-size: 17px;\"><i><b><span style=\"background-color: white;\">Younger hackers will note the Arduino Nano at the heart of the project, running the VFO and handling all the relevant transmit\/receive switching. We can only imagine how welcome modern microcontrollers must have been to old hands at amateur radio, making synthesizing all manner of wild frequencies a cinch.<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/span><br \/> <span style=\"font-family: , , , sans-serif; font-size: 17px;\"><i><span style=\"background-color: yellow;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/i><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: , , , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><b>Indeed. <\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/> <span style=\"font-family: , , , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: , , , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><b>And once again this story about Paul&#8217;s AM operations has made me jealous of the obviously great AM homebrew culture that exists in Australia. <\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/> <span style=\"font-family: , , , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: , , , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><b>FB Paul! <\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/> <span style=\"font-family: , , , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: , , , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still working on trying to match the excellent results Paul achieved with his AM receiver. Then this morning I wake up to a Hack-A-Day article describing his even more impressive achievement with his AM transmitter. There was one line from the Hack-A-Day article that made me think of Pete Juliano: Younger hackers will note &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/02\/22\/vk3hns-am-pulse-width-modulated-homebrew-transmitter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VK3HN&#8217;s AM Pulse Width Modulated Homebrew Transmitter&#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":[130,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092","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=8092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}