N2UHC's Homebrew Page
Homebrewing equipment is a fun way to enjoy the radio hobby. There's nothing more satisfying than using a piece of equipment you built yourself, whether it be a QRP ham radio transceiver, a receiver, or antenna.
Here are some of the many homebrew projects I have made.
Radio Projects:
- SW-20+ Small Wonder 20+ QRP transceiver
- SW-30+ Small Wonder 30+ QRP transceiver
- SW-40+ Small Wonder 40+ QRP transceiver
- MultiWonder Three Small Wonder monoband transceivers in one radio
- Ozark 80 Ozark 80 "Ham Radio"
- N2UHC/B My 10 meter propagation beacon
- Tin Ear The AMQRP club's "Tin Ear" 40 meter receiver
- 40M Transmitter A 40 meter QRPp transmitter I built for use with the Tin Ear
- BBB-4 A receiver for listening to natural radio signals
- BitX20a 20 meter SSB QRP transceiver
Antenna Projects:
- Bicone Wideband scanner antenna
- J-Pole Super J-Pole plans
- Slim Jim The Slim Jim J-pole variant antenna
- Dipole Simple halfwave dipole plans
- Dual Band Dipole A two-band HF dipole
- Lightning Arrestors Two simple lightning arrestors
- Random Wire Simple random wire plans
- Portable Wire A random wire antenna for portable SW receivers
- 10 Meter dipole A vertically-mounted rigid 10 meter dipole
- Line Launcher A handy tool for getting wire antennas up into trees
- Antenna Splitter A handy device to connect two HF receivers to one antenna
Station Accessories:
- ASU Swiches three audio inputs to one pair of stereo headphones
- VCR How to use a VCR as a long-play recorder
- Power Supply How to convert a PC power supply to a 12VDC power supply
- CW Paddles Three different homebrew paddles
- Dummy Load QRP dummy load
- PSK Interface A computer-to-radio interface for PSK31
- CW Keyers Two homebrew CW keyers
- Mouse Keyer A CW keyer built into a computer mouse
- RF Sniffer NJQRP club RF sniffer/field strength meter
- Solar Charger An easy-to-build solar-powered battery charger
- CW Oscillator A simple Morse code practice buzzer
- NoGaWaTT The NoGaWaTT power/SWR meter
- CW Key A simple homebrew CW key
- Isolation Transformer Provides isolation to keep radio inputs from damaging computer sound cards
- D104 Lamp A neat desk lamp made from an Astatic D104 microphone
- Frequency Counter My version of the DFD4 frequency counter kit
- Audio splitter A device for splitting audio output from a radio
Don't have a well stocked junk box? Read my thoughts on scavenging for parts here.
Links
www.4sqrp.com The website of the Four State QRP Group
www.norcalqrp.com The NorCal QRP club website
www.njqrp.org The New Jersey QRP club website
www.amqrp.org The American QRP club, an amalgamation of 4SQRP, NorCal, and NJQRP
http://www.mpna.com/fpqrp/ The website of the Flying Pigs QRP Club
http://ac6v.com/homebrew.html AC6V's excellent homebrew website
www.smallwonderlabs.com Small Wonder Labs, source for excellent QRP kits
www.partsandkits.com W8DIZ's source of electronic components & radio-related kits
www.qrpworld.com QRP World website, excellent source of QRP & homebrewing info
www.allelectronics.com All Electronics website, an excellent source for electronic components
www.mouser.com Mouser Electronics, another good supplier of electronic components