{"id":9827,"date":"2019-09-15T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/09\/15\/virginia-to-new-hampshire-one-way-on-8-parts-and-20-mw\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:24:06","slug":"virginia-to-new-hampshire-one-way-on-8-parts-and-20-mw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/09\/15\/virginia-to-new-hampshire-one-way-on-8-parts-and-20-mw\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia to New Hampshire (one way) on 8 Parts and 20 mW"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/QRPppTXET-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"155\" data-original-width=\"620\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/QRPppTXET-1.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Having gotten the r<a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/single-transistor-regen-has-qso.html\">egen receiver portion of the ET-1 transceiver<\/a> working nicely, I&#8217;m now working on the transmitter. This is a much easier circuit to get going. (Check out the right hand side of the schematic below &#8212; that is the transmitter.) I have not made any contacts yet, but yesterday I called CQ on 7050 kHz and watched the Reverse Beacon Network to see if any of the skimmer stations picked me up. Success! W3UA up in New Hampshire received my signals. <\/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>I was running about 30 milliwatts to my doublet antenna. The transmitter consists of EIGHT parts. And three of them are the low pass filter. <\/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>Next step: Bring the transmitter and receiver together by using the switching scheme that OM Yingling used. The RX and TX will share the same single FET (MPF-102 or J-310) with all three leads from the FET switched from TX to RX. Then I will try for the elusive QSO with a single FET. <\/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>More ET-1 related posts here: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/search?q=ET-1\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/search?q=ET-1<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ET1schem.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"305\" data-original-width=\"400\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ET1schem.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having gotten the regen receiver portion of the ET-1 transceiver working nicely, I&#8217;m now working on the transmitter. This is a much easier circuit to get going. (Check out the right hand side of the schematic below &#8212; that is the transmitter.) I have not made any contacts yet, but yesterday I called CQ on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/09\/15\/virginia-to-new-hampshire-one-way-on-8-parts-and-20-mw\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Virginia to New Hampshire (one way) on 8 Parts and 20 mW&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9827","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=9827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9830,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9827\/revisions\/9830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}