{"id":9468,"date":"2024-12-09T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T06:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/12\/09\/listening-to-40-meters-on-the-dc-receiver-and-i-heard-a-distinguished-homebrewer\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:19","slug":"listening-to-40-meters-on-the-dc-receiver-and-i-heard-a-distinguished-homebrewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/12\/09\/listening-to-40-meters-on-the-dc-receiver-and-i-heard-a-distinguished-homebrewer\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening to 40 meters on the DC Receiver &#8212; And I Heard a Distinguished Homebrewer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vfnz4sCJcb4?si=CZ_s1tqO3gj3q_DW?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>I made the video above to show postential builders how useful our Direct Conversion receiver really is. <\/b><b>Late in the video (starting at 11:17), I heard a station calling CQ. It was N4QR. A check of QRZ.com shows it was Bob Null. Here is picture from Bob&#8217;s QRZ page: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhbmXhpfxsw5IcFZnFr_CZrxjTp3RTL7kmzAENIKCDTdKE6OIqq1yFG_faNdou_8MfpzCIC5_Zhrls-b6dpnCvjnndk2QseXr2EhSQiCRjAZOG1tXo9nD3aM6VqsFx3UW1OEsDyecZa6bbsQyrnNYJrUH1wyG5SKKF0IhW9c7czLs1elczKKQ5TWGHnVy8\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"600\" data-original-width=\"800\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image_1753115707.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>Check out the old general coverage receiver and &#8212; wait for it &#8212; the homebrew thermatron transmitter. TRGHS. <\/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>Google led me to this amazing video by Stever N4LQ that describes a book that N4QR put together on how to build thermatron transmitters from Junkbox\/Hamfest parts: <\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cHi72fd8ELY?si=dQ8VDjMTMojHZGPX?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>Steve N4LQ is in contact with Bob N4QR and asked him which transmitter he was using when I heard him. <span style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\">Bob said he thinks it was his 30 watt 807 final transmitter. <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Thanks Bob. and thanks Steve!<\/b><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made the video above to show postential builders how useful our Direct Conversion receiver really is. Late in the video (starting at 11:17), I heard a station calling CQ. It was N4QR. A check of QRZ.com shows it was Bob Null. Here is picture from Bob&#8217;s QRZ page: Check out the old general coverage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/12\/09\/listening-to-40-meters-on-the-dc-receiver-and-i-heard-a-distinguished-homebrewer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Listening to 40 meters on the DC Receiver &#8212; And I Heard a Distinguished Homebrewer!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,116,35,154,12,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-40-meters","category-cw","category-direct-conversion","category-evans-grayson","category-tj-dc-rx","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9468","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=9468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9470,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9468\/revisions\/9470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}