52 Week Ham Radio Challenge 2026 - Week 36: Homebrew 2 Homebrew

Challenge for 2026-08-31 - 2026-09-06

Category: 📻 - Difficulty: 🟢

Homebrew 2 Homebrew

Make a contact with homebrew gear on your side and the other side. What gear did you use? What did they use? Were you happy with your gear? And were they? Not all the gear has to be homebrew. It's enough if one piece of gear was DIY'd.

Toots mentioning this challenge

DateUserUser ScoreStatusToot Summary & Link
August 31, 2026 11:31 UTCmcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2Success!@hamchallenge Yesterday, I went to a park and made 10 QSOs (it was kind of hard slogging) with a 100% homebrew linked dipole antenna and 100% homebrew single-paddle key. I've done DX on that antenna, and I use that key in preference to expensive manufactured alternatives. I like them enough that I published all the files and detailed instructions for others to build them too. #HC36S

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