{"id":8194,"date":"2025-02-15T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/02\/15\/heard-on-the-old-military-radio-net-w4sva\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:00:59","slug":"heard-on-the-old-military-radio-net-w4sva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/02\/15\/heard-on-the-old-military-radio-net-w4sva\/","title":{"rendered":"Heard on the Old Military Radio Net:  W4SVA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/files.qrz.com\/a\/w4sva\/IMG_8375.JPG\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image_1753107118.jpg\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>So there I was, early Saturday morning (earlier here &#8212; we are one hour ahead of the East Coast) listening &#8212; as I do &#8212; to the Old Military Radio net. 3385 kHz AM. I use the K3FEF Web SDR in Pennsylvania. I heard a station that sounded familiar: Chris W4SVA. He said he was in the Shenandoah valley and was receiving on an R-390A and transmitting with a homebrew rig. I kind of remembered talking to a guy with a station like that. I searched through the SolderSmoke blog. No joy. Then I remembered it was probably a log entry. There he is, W4SVA. Here is his QRZ page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/W4SVA\"> https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/W4SVA<\/a> I was almost certainly on the K2ZA DX-100. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Here&#8217;s my log entry: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span face=\"Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><b>12 August 2018<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span face=\"Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"><b>75AM W4SVA Chris in the Shenandoah, 15 miles south of Harrisonburg. Very FB. AM guy. Building rack-mount rig. Lots of HB stuff. Sent him the Shenandoah rocket pictures. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span face=\"Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"><b>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><b>I also heard Buzz W3EMD from the Hudson Valley &#8212; the dynamotor was clearly audible. FB Buzz.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span face=\"Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"><b>Thanks Chris. And thanks again to John Zaruba for the DX-100. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span face=\"Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there I was, early Saturday morning (earlier here &#8212; we are one hour ahead of the East Coast) listening &#8212; as I do &#8212; to the Old Military Radio net. 3385 kHz AM. I use the K3FEF Web SDR in Pennsylvania. I heard a station that sounded familiar: Chris W4SVA. He said he was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/02\/15\/heard-on-the-old-military-radio-net-w4sva\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heard on the Old Military Radio Net:  W4SVA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,482,100,502,503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-am","category-boatanchors","category-old-radio","category-shenandoah","category-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8196,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194\/revisions\/8196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}