{"id":8415,"date":"2023-04-26T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/04\/26\/retro-qrp-rigs-of-the-1960s-70s-and-80s-video-by-mike-wu2d\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:24","slug":"retro-qrp-rigs-of-the-1960s-70s-and-80s-video-by-mike-wu2d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/04\/26\/retro-qrp-rigs-of-the-1960s-70s-and-80s-video-by-mike-wu2d\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro QRP Rigs of the 1960&#8217;s, 70&#8217;s,  and 80&#8217;s &#8212; Video by Mike WU2D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xYh0yJ1_IK4?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>It is time to put aside (again!) all of the heated ideological arguments about the power level that defines &#8220;low power.&#8221; Just sit back and enjoy this wonderful trip down QRP memory lane. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Mike&#8217;s description of the simple, single-transistor QRP transmitter was really nice. I recently made something similar: <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/first-qso-with-high-school-receiver-100.html\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/first-qso-with-high-school-receiver-100.html<\/a> And Mike does a nice plug for our beloved Michigan Mighty Mite. Go CBLA! <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>The modular idea: words to live by my friends. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>40673! TT2! And G3RJV&#8217;s PW Severn &#8211; indeed, bow your heads!<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Wow, the Ten Tec Power Mite (or Might!) &#8212; I still want one. Same for the Argonaut &#8212; what a great name (sounds like a &#8220;magic carpet), and with SSB to boot! I want to join the Argonaut cult! <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I have both the HW-7 and HW-8 (the HW-8 is heading to the Dominican Republic). This video makes me want to fire up the HW-7. Maybe on 40. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>My 40 meter homebrew rig (Digi-Tia) has in it the filter from that old Yaesu FT-7 rig. The filter was given to me by Steve &#8220;Snort Rosin&#8221; Smith. <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2015\/05\/bitx-digi-tia-build-update-2-installing.html\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2015\/05\/bitx-digi-tia-build-update-2-installing.html<\/a> <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiHjWnOWG3U0GYleDesjZYCvx70FrAb0WclGa6Dklt6KjdGp6Ul8Lvz1Xirul-7G4H5mc1CtnP4ytpzLlJzBI2lZWk92h8T6QZDLJK53YJIAhIwcTPWn7dUNuzr25ErNjDclhCmIKMNp23BYbQSHBEG8vUpEH0DgvKkjJXMu6gSRJxle7op7f0t28-_\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"476\" data-original-width=\"500\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image_1753108572.png\" width=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Thanks to Mike for including me in the credit roll at the end. What a great group of people &#8212; it is a real honor to be listed with those folks. <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is time to put aside (again!) all of the heated ideological arguments about the power level that defines &#8220;low power.&#8221; Just sit back and enjoy this wonderful trip down QRP memory lane. Mike&#8217;s description of the simple, single-transistor QRP transmitter was really nice. I recently made something similar: https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/first-qso-with-high-school-receiver-100.html And Mike does a nice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/04\/26\/retro-qrp-rigs-of-the-1960s-70s-and-80s-video-by-mike-wu2d\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Retro QRP Rigs of the 1960&#8217;s, 70&#8217;s,  and 80&#8217;s &#8212; Video by Mike WU2D&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193,7,146,192,60,310,15,206,24,121,87,319,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx-digi-tia","category-demaw-doug","category-dobbs-george","category-gqrp","category-hayward-wes","category-hw-7","category-hw-8","category-lewallan-roy","category-michigan-mighty-mite","category-murphy-mike-wu2d","category-qrp","category-smith-steve","category-tuna-tin-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415","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=8415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8417,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415\/revisions\/8417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}