{"id":8644,"date":"2010-05-08T04:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/05\/08\/the-limerick-revolution\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T01:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:02:59","slug":"the-limerick-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/05\/08\/the-limerick-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Limerick Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ReggieAssembly.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ReggieAssembly.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468756547347074882\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>On the last podcast I mentioned a new PC board technique being pioneered by Rex, W1REX, out of Limerick, Maine. The Limerick technique uses cool-looking black PC boards with pads for the components. (The picture above is the kit version of AA1TJ&#8217;s famed Reggie receiver.) Connections between the pads are via PC board traces within the board. I like it because it seems to provide the big advantage of our beloved Manhattan technique: you have all the parts and connections topside. Check out Rex&#8217;s fine line of kits: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qrpme.com\/\">http:\/\/www.qrpme.com\/<br \/><\/a><br \/>Today G-QRP club announced the release of a Limerick kit version of G3RJV&#8217;s Sudden receiver.<br \/>Take a look at the final product and the boards:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/sm_suddenfront.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 169px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/sm_suddenfront.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468759501690892210\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/sudden2boards.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/sudden2boards.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468758701707786866\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Very nice. Read more about this wonderful kit here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gqrp.com\/sudden.htm\">http:\/\/www.gqrp.com\/sudden.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go Limerick! Go Sudden!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the last podcast I mentioned a new PC board technique being pioneered by Rex, W1REX, out of Limerick, Maine. The Limerick technique uses cool-looking black PC boards with pads for the components. (The picture above is the kit version of AA1TJ&#8217;s famed Reggie receiver.) Connections between the pads are via PC board traces within &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/05\/08\/the-limerick-revolution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Limerick Revolution&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,146,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aa1tj","category-dobbs-george","category-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644","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=8644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8648,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions\/8648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}