{"id":8625,"date":"2025-05-05T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/05\/05\/i-admit-it-i-am-not-100-homebrew-i-hang-my-head-in-shame\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:36:17","slug":"i-admit-it-i-am-not-100-homebrew-i-hang-my-head-in-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/05\/05\/i-admit-it-i-am-not-100-homebrew-i-hang-my-head-in-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"I admit it. I am not 100% homebrew. I hang my head in shame."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Walter KA4KXX and Mike WN2A and I were recently talking about the degree to which we are 100% homebrew. <\/b><\/span>Both these guys come a lot closer to this goal than I do. Here is my assessment of my gear: <\/b><\/p>\n

I fall far from a state of 100% homebrew grace: <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

— I use commercial power supplies. I justify this by saying that I could use batteries, and I wouldn’t build them. <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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— I use a D-104 with a Tug-8 amp in the base. I justify this by saying that I COULD homebrew a mic, but I’d just be using a commercial electret element. <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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— My .1 kW amplifier is from a CCI kit. I find it hard to homebrew 100 watt amplifiers that do not oscillate. Kits make this a bit easier. <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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— I use a K4KIO Hex beam. I had a homebrew MOXON, but that got destroyed by a Northeaster. And I have to limit trips up to the roof. Like to zero. (I ask the gutter guy to do this.) <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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— I have a DX-100 and an HQ-100 that I use to check into the Old Military Radio Net on Saturday morning. I had a DX-100 as a kid, and John Zaruba K2ZA later gave me his dad’s DX-100. That is the one I use. I picked up the Hammarlund HQ-100 in the Dominican Republic in 1993 and have been repairing it ever since. It is not a great receiver, but it looks good atop the DX-100 and I have a sentimental attachment. <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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— I have an HT-37 and a Drake 2-B that I have had since I was 14 years old. I have a strong sentimental attachment to this gear. I have worked on most of this old stuff. <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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The three SSB dual banders that I am running are mostly homebrew. The Mythbuster uses a VFO out of the Yaesu FT-101. The 17\/12 rig has an LM386 AF Amp. The 15\/10 rig has an SBL-1. <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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I will try to increase my HB percentage. <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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Walter KA4KXX and Mike WN2A and I were recently talking about the degree to which we are 100% homebrew. Both these guys come a lot closer to this goal than I do. Here is my assessment of my gear: I fall far from a state of 100% homebrew grace: — I use commercial power supplies. … Continue reading “I admit it. I am not 100% homebrew. I hang my head in shame.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,482,6,150,59,21,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antennas","category-boatanchors","category-drake-2b","category-dx-100","category-hallicrafters","category-homebrew","category-hq-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625","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=8625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8628,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625\/revisions\/8628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}