{"id":8431,"date":"2020-03-09T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/03\/09\/the-homebrew-rigs-i-worked-during-the-first-day-of-novice-rig-roundup-nrr\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:38:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:38:03","slug":"the-homebrew-rigs-i-worked-during-the-first-day-of-novice-rig-roundup-nrr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/03\/09\/the-homebrew-rigs-i-worked-during-the-first-day-of-novice-rig-roundup-nrr\/","title":{"rendered":"The Homebrew Rigs I Worked During the First Day of Novice Rig Roundup (NRR)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Thing-of-Beauty above is “The Scrounger” homebrew transmitter of Jon WS1K. Jon writes: <\/b><\/div>\n

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The rig I used this morning was the Scrounger. I built it a couple of weeks ago. It took me about 2 months of trolling a local thrift store for the right pan. I wanted a pan that captured the spirit of a true Novice built rig.<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
As a side note, the key that I’m using is a JH Bunnell that I bought at one of the MIT flea markets last summer in Cambridge. It’s mounted on a piece of plywood and written on the plywood is the Novice callsign WN1UMD. Cool or what?<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n

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More of Jon’s rigs here: https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/WS1K<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n
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Above is Greg Latta AA8V’s amazing 6X2 superhet receiver: <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
More details here:<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
https:\/\/www.frostburg.edu\/personal\/latta\/ee\/6x2rcvr\/6x2rcvr.html<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n
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The Thing-of-Beauty above is “The Scrounger” homebrew transmitter of Jon WS1K. Jon writes: The rig I used this morning was the Scrounger. I built it a couple of weeks ago. It took me about 2 months of trolling a local thrift store for the right pan. I wanted a pan that captured the spirit of … Continue reading “The Homebrew Rigs I Worked During the First Day of Novice Rig Roundup (NRR)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,387,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cw","category-tube","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8431","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=8431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8434,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8431\/revisions\/8434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}