{"id":8797,"date":"2016-11-24T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/11\/24\/hb2hb-butch-k0bs-with-a-kwm2-and-a-hombrew-4-1000-amp\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T01:21:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:21:41","slug":"hb2hb-butch-k0bs-with-a-kwm2-and-a-hombrew-4-1000-amp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/11\/24\/hb2hb-butch-k0bs-with-a-kwm2-and-a-hombrew-4-1000-amp\/","title":{"rendered":"HB2HB:  Butch K0BS with a KWM2 and a Hombrew 4-1000 Amp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/K0BS.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/K0BS.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Wow! Now THAT is a shack! This morning I heard Butch K0BS and his friends on 40 meter SSB. I knew I was listening to the voices of kindred spirits when I heard them talk about a drifting VFO and the need to heat up the filaments of an ART-13. As the group was shutting down to begin their preparations for Thanksgiving dinners, I gave Bruce a call with my BITX 40 Module. He was on a KWM-2 (the rig that had been drifting a bit) and a homebrew 4-1000 amplifier. I told him that I think a bit of VFO drift is a sign of good character. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>You really need to check out the pictures on Bruce&#8217;s QRZ.com page: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/K0BS\"><b>https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/K0BS<\/b><\/a><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Happy Thanksgiving to all who are celebrating the holiday.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! Now THAT is a shack! This morning I heard Butch K0BS and his friends on 40 meter SSB. I knew I was listening to the voices of kindred spirits when I heard them talk about a drifting VFO and the need to heat up the filaments of an ART-13. As the group was shutting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/11\/24\/hb2hb-butch-k0bs-with-a-kwm2-and-a-hombrew-4-1000-amp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HB2HB:  Butch K0BS with a KWM2 and a Hombrew 4-1000 Amp&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,65,46,100,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-40-meters","category-bitx40module","category-hb2hb","category-old-radio","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797","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=8797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8799,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions\/8799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}