{"id":3667,"date":"2024-03-22T06:45:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T11:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2024-03-23T08:36:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T13:36:30","slug":"finished-norcal-40b-not-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=3667","title":{"rendered":"Finished NorCal 40B (not really)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/semi-finished-NorCal-40B-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3672 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/semi-finished-NorCal-40B-1-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/semi-finished-NorCal-40B-1-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/semi-finished-NorCal-40B-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This is the semi-finished NorCal 40B.\u00a0 (I chose to place the FREQ-Mite&#8217;s activation bottom above the RIT switch.)\u00a0 I am not sure the little radio will ever be finished. It is more and experiment than a anything else.\u00a0 I added up to a one megohm resistor to the audio line from the FREQ-Mite and the level is still too high.\u00a0 \u00a0 The power output appears to be too low, but my measuring devices are not all that precise.\u00a0 I do not have any real test equipment just a DMM, an Elecraft W1 Power Meter (kit built) and a home-built RF probe.\u00a0 That said it was fun to build, enjoy following all the web chatter about the radio and I can have nice QSO&#8217;s with the little thing.\u00a0 It was especially enjoyable and interesting to build the transceiver by circuit stage.\u00a0 \u00a0I am ready to build more stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the semi-finished NorCal 40B.\u00a0 (I chose to place the FREQ-Mite&#8217;s activation bottom above the RIT switch.)\u00a0 I am not sure the little radio will ever be finished. It is more and experiment than a anything else.\u00a0 I added up to a one megohm resistor to the audio line from the FREQ-Mite and the\u2026 <a class='read-more' href='https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=3667'>Continue Reading &lsquo;Finished NorCal 40B (not really)&rsquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,23,22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freq-mite","category-norcal-40b","category-projects","category-qrp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3684,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions\/3684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}