{"id":8501,"date":"2011-07-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/07\/merrill-budlongs-drake-2-b\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:46:25","slug":"merrill-budlongs-drake-2-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/07\/merrill-budlongs-drake-2-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Merrill Budlong’s Drake 2-B"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Hi –<\/span> <\/p>\n

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I just listened to Soldersmoke 134 and was delighted to hear the reading from Peter Doherty, W1UO.<\/p>\n

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I first met Peter just before his transcendent 2-B experience. He joined the Fidelity Amateur Radio Club, then K1NQG, <\/span>of Cranston, RI<\/span>, which was started by Merrill Budlong (SK), then W1QLD, later W1MB, in 1958. Merrill had <\/span>a 2-B at that time, so I am almost certain Peter was referring to Merrill’s receiver.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Peter received a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Rhode Island<\/span>. He was an adventurer. After college, we briefly worked together at Merriam Instruments, which was <\/span>owned by Robert <\/span>Merriam,W1NTE. (Bob is the founder and curator of The New England<\/span> Museum of <\/span>Wireless and Steam in <\/span>East Greenwich, RI.) Peter soon got wanderlust. He loaded his backpack and <\/span>took a 1 year trot around <\/span>the globe. I was astouded when I got a Nepalese postcard from him! Since then <\/span>he helped deliver vessels from the east coast<\/span> to Seattle<\/span> via the Panama<\/span> canal, worked at the Voice of <\/span>America, worked in marine electronics in Port Townsend, Washington<\/span>, and has worked for at least two <\/span>communications equipment manufacturers. I’m sure he had many other adventures.<\/p>\n

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The Fidelity Amateur Radio Club is still alive and doing well. Some of the original members are still active with the club, <\/span>but most of us are gray\/bald, fatter, and move slower, but we still love the hobby and appreciate what Merrill <\/span>did to get so many of us started in our careers. Since Merrill’s passing his callsign was <\/span>transferred to the <\/span>club and we used it this past Field Day.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Keep up the good work! We ARE listening!<\/span><\/div>\n
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73,<\/span><\/div>\n
Ken Tata<\/span><\/div>\n
K1KT<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi – I just listened to Soldersmoke 134 and was delighted to hear the reading from Peter Doherty, W1UO. I first met Peter just before his transcendent 2-B experience. He joined the Fidelity Amateur Radio Club, then K1NQG, of Cranston, RI, which was started by Merrill Budlong (SK), then W1QLD, later W1MB, in 1958. Merrill … Continue reading “Merrill Budlong’s Drake 2-B”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs","category-drake-2b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501","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=8501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8503,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501\/revisions\/8503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}