{"id":9705,"date":"2017-02-24T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/02\/24\/more-dsb-from-belgium-and-spain\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:06:37","slug":"more-dsb-from-belgium-and-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/02\/24\/more-dsb-from-belgium-and-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"More DSB, from Belgium and Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170130_194018_1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170130_194018_1.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10821\"> <b><i>Frank ON6UU writes:<\/i> <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\"> <b>Hello Soldermelters,<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10822\"> <b> <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10780\"> <b>Maybe some interesting news for you as there are some new kits at hand from EA3GCY (<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ea3gcy.com\/\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10824\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><b>http:\/\/www.ea3gcy.com<\/b><\/a><b>)<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10823\"> <b> <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10779\"> <b>I\u2019ve made the MFT-40 DSB without any problem, all parts were provided with the kit, only things to buy were a microphone connector, a speaker and an antenna plug. The box was taken from my attic and was a VGA-selector in his previous life.<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10778\"> <b>Kit came together in a few evenings, I followed the very well written manual, all was well pointed out, which resulted in a working kit. After aligning the kit I could start making qso\u2019s. The microphone was made from a piece of tube, a simple switch and a electret microphone, it doesn\u2019t look pretty but the microphone works.<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10880\"> <b> <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10881\"> <b>Rx-Tx 7.066 \u2013 7.133 (With DDS the complete 7MHz band)<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10882\"> <b>Pwr : some 3W peak.<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10883\"> <b>Double Side Band<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10884\"> <b> <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10885\"> <b>Made some You-tube films about it. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10887\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fPREwd1FowM\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10886\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><b>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fPREwd1FowM<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10889\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3T2dxnTmF7I\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10888\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><b>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3T2dxnTmF7I<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10777\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eHoPdhmbZz0\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10890\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><b>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eHoPdhmbZz0<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10891\"> <b> <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10763\"> <b>Easy to make, no SMD, easy alignment without necessity of expensive material. Fine for someone who never made a transceiver, hence the name&#8230;My First Transceiver, MFT. As soon as the weather permits I will take the TRX out in the field and activate a SOTA with it.<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10769\"> <b> <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10770\"> <b>Now working on the MFT-20 DSB. I\u2019m hoping for an 80mtr version to come available too. \ud83d\ude42<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10892\"> <b> <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10893\"> <b>All info is on Javier\u2019s site. (<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ea3gcy.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><b>http:\/\/www.ea3gcy.com<\/b><\/a><b>)<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10898\"> <b> <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10899\"> <b>72, 73<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10900\"> <b>Keep the solder melting !!<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1487930168787_10906\"> <b> <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\"> <b>ON6UU<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170130_192041_1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170130_192041_1.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170125_195140_1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170125_195140_1.jpg\" width=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div> <b><\/b><i><\/i><u><\/u><sub><\/sub><sup><\/sup><strike><br \/><\/strike><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8808419325MsoNormal\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank ON6UU writes: Hello Soldermelters, Maybe some interesting news for you as there are some new kits at hand from EA3GCY (http:\/\/www.ea3gcy.com) I\u2019ve made the MFT-40 DSB without any problem, all parts were provided with the kit, only things to buy were a microphone connector, a speaker and an antenna plug. The box was taken &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/02\/24\/more-dsb-from-belgium-and-spain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More DSB, from Belgium and Spain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[348,33,105,253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-belgium","category-dsb","category-kits","category-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705","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=9705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9709,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705\/revisions\/9709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}