{"id":9771,"date":"2011-10-22T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/22\/homebrew-hero-yardley-beers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:15:07","slug":"homebrew-hero-yardley-beers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/22\/homebrew-hero-yardley-beers\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebrew Hero:  Yardley Beers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/jason.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666264827763852418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/jason.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How&#8217;s that for a beautiful homebrew rig! Prompted by our discussion of distinctive ham radio names, Harv, WA3EIB, sent us a very nice report on Yardley Beers, W0JF. The rig pictured is Yardley&#8217;s &#8220;Jason&#8221; 20 meter QRP transceiver. Yardley had named the rig for his cousin. Harv met Yardley at a Colorado hamfest in 1993: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0 , 0 , 102); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;On the table in front of Yardley was an Aluminum Box fashioned into a QRP radio named, \u201cJason\u201d, 2 broken and worn head phones from the 1920\u2019s, a few 1980\u2019s QST and, several odd radio parts. My bulb of brilliance was not working that day. I said, \u201cI don\u2019t know what I\u2019m looking for!&#8221; Somehow Yardley must have studied my eyes. I had locked my vision onto his very elaborate QRP rig. He paused for a few moments and said, \u201cYou into QRP?\u201d By this time I felt more relaxed because he was now on my wavelength. I said, \u201cWhy yes, I would rather work with a homebrew radio that the ones with features that no one seems to know what they do!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Harv bought the Jason (and everything else on Yardley&#8217;s table) and established a lasting friendship with W0JF. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">There is a nice article about OM Yardley&#8217;s life in the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;rct=j&#038;q=&#038;esrc=s&#038;source=web&#038;cd=1&#038;ved=0CCUQFjAA&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cqc.org%2Ftext%2Fyardley_beers_arrl_qst_november_2004.pdf&#038;ei=I6aiTqS4Acjm0QGu-c3LBQ&#038;usg=AFQjCNGg16sihYi8g_ucJxFzh3vhzzRj0g&#038;sig2=BJm5EC8eVr3Ok-NvzMiGaQ\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">November 2004 issue of QST<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Jason2.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666264699414327218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Jason2.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" \/><\/a>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>How&#8217;s that for a beautiful homebrew rig! Prompted by our discussion of distinctive ham radio names, Harv, WA3EIB, sent us a very nice report on Yardley Beers, W0JF. The rig pictured is Yardley&#8217;s &#8220;Jason&#8221; 20 meter QRP transceiver. Yardley had named the rig for his cousin. Harv met Yardley at a Colorado hamfest in 1993: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/22\/homebrew-hero-yardley-beers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homebrew Hero:  Yardley Beers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,100,87,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knack-stories","category-old-radio","category-qrp","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771","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=9771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9774,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions\/9774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}