{"id":8859,"date":"2022-07-03T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/07\/03\/homebrew-variable-capacitors-vu2nils-antenna-tuner-and-other-projects-from-basanta\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:03:27","slug":"homebrew-variable-capacitors-vu2nils-antenna-tuner-and-other-projects-from-basanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/07\/03\/homebrew-variable-capacitors-vu2nils-antenna-tuner-and-other-projects-from-basanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebrew Variable Capacitors &#8212;  VU2NIL&#8217;s Antenna Tuner (and other projects from Basanta)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjhxCEvRT75P0pUefo6NZAOKyRpMRf2Vx5ICejrRIz_DZQ3UPYYiajd0l1sFq12JtWi-t3ig9ugB3MER2wlHMvg_ajgN8L-hFVeCiK6eEof78x_9bRqPThcL1SluckbUd4QH8ztgdND-ny1BppmXR7mAjEXbWDhII7PmqHmGA7h6yw4x8w4nFZPezEK\/s2852\/VU2NIL%20TUNER.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1940\" data-original-width=\"2852\" height=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/VU2NIL20TUNER-1.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>OM Basanta VU2NIL built a very nice antenna tuner using homebrew variable capacitors (above). After seeing this, I feel unworthy &#8212; I used FACTORY-MADE variable capacitors. I feel like such an appliance operator. I hang my head in shame. <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Details on Basanta&#8217;s tuner are here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qsl.net\/vu2nil\/projects\/20210\/20210.html\">https:\/\/www.qsl.net\/vu2nil\/projects\/20210\/20210.html<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>More project from him here:<a href=\" https:\/\/www.qsl.net\/vu2nil\/\"> https:\/\/www.qsl.net\/vu2nil\/<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>And more here (his blog): <a href=\"https:\/\/vu2nil.blogspot.com\/\">https:\/\/vu2nil.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Basanta has obviously made great contributions to the radio art. Thanks Basanta. And thanks to Alain F4IET for alerting me to Basanta&#8217;s work. <\/b><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OM Basanta VU2NIL built a very nice antenna tuner using homebrew variable capacitors (above). After seeing this, I feel unworthy &#8212; I used FACTORY-MADE variable capacitors. I feel like such an appliance operator. I hang my head in shame. Details on Basanta&#8217;s tuner are here: https:\/\/www.qsl.net\/vu2nil\/projects\/20210\/20210.html More project from him here: https:\/\/www.qsl.net\/vu2nil\/ And more here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/07\/03\/homebrew-variable-capacitors-vu2nils-antenna-tuner-and-other-projects-from-basanta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homebrew Variable Capacitors &#8212;  VU2NIL&#8217;s Antenna Tuner (and other projects from Basanta)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,68,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas","category-india","category-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8859","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=8859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8862,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8859\/revisions\/8862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}