{"id":9604,"date":"2021-02-16T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T05:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/02\/16\/my-current-rig-the-quarantine-hodgepodge\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:51:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:51:38","slug":"my-current-rig-the-quarantine-hodgepodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/02\/16\/my-current-rig-the-quarantine-hodgepodge\/","title":{"rendered":"My Current Rig: The Quarantine Hodgepodge"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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As I continue to S<\/u>tay I<\/u>n T<\/u>he S<\/u>hack, last week I was looking for something to do. This is what I came up with. <\/b><\/div>\n

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— Ramsey-kit QAMP20 modified for 40. I now have two MTP3055V MOSFETS in there. <\/b><\/div>\n
— BITX40 Module with a solidified<\/i> VFO from a Galaxy V (note the knob from a Drake 2B!)<\/b><\/div>\n
— Power supply <\/b><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

It puts out about 15 watts SSB. I was bracing for attacks from the 40 meter waterfall police, but no, everyone said it sounds great. I had four very nice contacts yesterday. It was fun. <\/b><\/p>\n

Still to do: Possibly a San Jian frequency counter to give some Juliano Blue glowing numerals for the frequency readout. This would be a step up from the Juliano Blue sticky note and corresponding piece of black electrical tape that currently serves as the frequency indicator. <\/b><\/p>\n


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As I continue to Stay In The Shack, last week I was looking for something to do. This is what I came up with. Left to right: — Speaker — Ramsey-kit QAMP20 modified for 40. I now have two MTP3055V MOSFETS in there. — BITX40 Module with a solidified VFO from a Galaxy V (note … Continue reading “My Current Rig: The Quarantine Hodgepodge”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,414,270,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx40module","category-hodgepodge-rig","category-quarantine","category-vfo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604","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=9604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9606,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604\/revisions\/9606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}