{"id":99,"date":"2016-08-13T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/08\/13\/kb8ms-mighty-mite-beware-the-treacherous-p2n2222\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T12:36:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T02:36:48","slug":"kb8ms-mighty-mite-beware-the-treacherous-p2n2222","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/08\/13\/kb8ms-mighty-mite-beware-the-treacherous-p2n2222\/","title":{"rendered":"KB8M&#8217;s Mighty Mite &#8212; Beware the Treacherous P2N2222!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiJPn1q72W5eGflcqGAd4pf7MXNm9w4Hbf7qg6CrTS7bjRwSdeIyLUlTAyOT3WmSqBLlJUFc8tvBFkxYwR4Ooob0QMhfMgx0SYHlQRLK1Nauf838RUIIrVKnEK55o1GOrhAXPJiVRbuT1s\/s1600\/kb8m+MMM.bmp\" 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\/2016\/08\/kb8mMMM-1.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Doug KB8M did a beautiful job with his Michigan Mighty Mite. But, as often happens, it still didn&#8217;t work. He turned to us for advice. I gave him a long list of things to check, but Pete brought the power of superior tribal knowledge to the problem and spotted the defect immediately: The transistor was in backwards. It is a P2N2222. That means the pin out it C-B-E not the usual E-B-C. I had fallen into this trap with one of my BITX rigs and had to pull out and reverse many of those transistors. Fortunately for Doug he had used a socket for the transistor. TRGHS!!!!!!!!!!!!! JOO!!!!!!!!!!!<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug KB8M did a beautiful job with his Michigan Mighty Mite. But, as often happens, it still didn&#8217;t work. He turned to us for advice. I gave him a long list of things to check, but Pete brought the power of superior tribal knowledge to the problem and spotted the defect immediately: The transistor was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/08\/13\/kb8ms-mighty-mite-beware-the-treacherous-p2n2222\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;KB8M&#8217;s Mighty Mite &#8212; Beware the Treacherous P2N2222!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-michigan-mighty-mite","category-troubleshooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}