{"id":9523,"date":"2012-05-02T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/kick-panel-progress-podcast-delay\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:40:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:40:47","slug":"kick-panel-progress-podcast-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/kick-panel-progress-podcast-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Kick Panel Progress; Podcast Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/KickPanel.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\/2012\/05\/KickPanel.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>I&#8217;m kind of behind on podcast production, but once again I have a good excuse: I&#8217;ve been melting solder. I decided to finally finish the Kick Panel DSB rig that I started building back in London. It is built on a kitchen cutting board purchased in a Dyas store in Windsor. The cabinet is fashioned from an aluminum kick panel for a door (a pub door!). <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>I originally intended this to be just a transmitter (for use with my trusty Drake 2-B) but it is so easy to add a direct conversion receiver to a DSB rig that I just threw together a version of the NE-602 LM386 Neophyte receiver and hooked it up to the 75 meter VFO. It sounds great. I love DC receivers. They seem to connect you directly to the ether. And now I&#8217;ll have a complete 75 meter DSB station in one box.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>This morning I tested the balanced modulator (singly balanced with two diodes). DSB is being generated. All I have to do now is put a little 6 db pad between the modulator and the amplifier chain, then work on the antenna a bit and I should be on 75. The amplifier chain dates back to the period when Mike, KL7R, and I were using LTSpice to design amps&#8230;.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>I was very pleased to include in this rig a part that Michael, AA1TJ, sent me: I have a little 10.7 MHz IF can in the front end of the RX. A cap allows it to tune in 75 meters. Thanks Mike!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>I hope to get a podcast out this weekend (if the computers cooperate &#8212; the Sony Vaios &#8220;light bulb-repaired&#8221; laptop finally gave up the ghost last weekend.) <\/b><\/span><\/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>I&#8217;m kind of behind on podcast production, but once again I have a good excuse: I&#8217;ve been melting solder. I decided to finally finish the Kick Panel DSB rig that I started building back in London. It is built on a kitchen cutting board purchased in a Dyas store in Windsor. The cabinet is fashioned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/kick-panel-progress-podcast-delay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kick Panel Progress; Podcast Delay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,33,272,86,49,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aa1tj","category-dsb","category-kl7r","category-rainey-michael","category-soldersmoke-podcast","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523","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=9523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9525,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523\/revisions\/9525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}