{"id":9383,"date":"2013-02-03T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/02\/03\/on-15-with-ht-37-and-drake-2b\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:26:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:26:31","slug":"on-15-with-ht-37-and-drake-2b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/02\/03\/on-15-with-ht-37-and-drake-2b\/","title":{"rendered":"On 15 with HT-37 and Drake 2B"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/w7fe.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/w7fe.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> W7FE&#8217;s Shack and Hex Beam<\/div>\n<p> <strong>After I replaced the 6U8 first mixer tube on the trusty Drake 2-B I tuned around a bit on 15 meters. IZ4NIC was loud, all the way from Bologna. I gave him a call and we had a nice QSO in Italian. then I talked to F4GBU. I was using my 40 meter dipole, but I thought I might do better with my 17 meter dipole (it is higher up in the trees). I called CQ 15 and got into a very nice QSO with Jim, W0JLG in Wichita. Jim has a very impressive collection of Boatanchors. We were soon joined by Stu, W7FE. Stu was using a Central Electronics 100v from the early 1960s. Wow, the three of us had a nice long contact. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>The QSO was a real trip down memory lane for me: My sister Trish is visiting us. We had been talking about how when we were kids she would come into the shack to watch me try to talk to people&#8230; with the very same HT-37 and Drake 2B. I was 15 and she was 10. That was 39 years ago! Here we were again, sitting in front of the same old rig. It was a lot of fun. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Stu has some great info on his very impressive radio shack. You guys will really enjoy a visit to his QRZ.com site: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/W7FE\"><strong>http:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/W7FE<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>And check out his switching system for all those rigs: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qsl.net\/w7fe\/\"><strong>http:\/\/www.qsl.net\/w7fe\/<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Wow, his site makes me want o move out to the shed and put up a hex beam! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W7FE&#8217;s Shack and Hex Beam After I replaced the 6U8 first mixer tube on the trusty Drake 2-B I tuned around a bit on 15 meters. IZ4NIC was loud, all the way from Bologna. I gave him a call and we had a nice QSO in Italian. then I talked to F4GBU. I was using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/02\/03\/on-15-with-ht-37-and-drake-2b\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On 15 with HT-37 and Drake 2B&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,6,59,103,100,122,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antennas","category-drake-2b","category-hallicrafters","category-knack-stories","category-old-radio","category-web-sites","category-workbench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9383","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=9383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9385,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9383\/revisions\/9385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}