Oh no, here's something else for us to worry about when working on old gear. As if the treat of electrocution or radioactive poisoning were not enough, now we have to worry about being hit with a dose of the 1960's drug culture. That could be one bad trip indeed. Imagine if you were having a hard time troubleshooting the Buchla Model 100. All of a sudden things start getting weird and your test gear starts dancing on the bench.
Fortunately, this is not likely to happen with a rig like the DX-100. With rigs like that the only similar danger is nicotine poisoning.
Thanks to Stephen Walters for finding this groovy story.
Really nice work. BLU is Spanish for SSB. (Juliano BLU?)
But I think Guillermo needs to build ONE MORE BOARD! A VFO or a VXO. Analog. To finish the job. Guillermo tells me this is in the works -- he selected an IF of 11.0592 MHz specifically so that he can use a variable oscillator built around a 4 MHz ceramic resonator.
Complete schematic and PC board patterns on his site:
We are proud to say that the owner is a SolderSmoke listener. Can you figure out what kind of car he is driving?
(See comments for answer).
From the obituary in the Washington Post:
In addition to the Nobel Prize, Dr. Akasaki’s honors included a 2009 Kyoto Prize — Japan’s highest honor — recognizing developments in advanced technology. He found that some technology, however, needed no advancing at all. He took great pleasure, for example, in long-playing classical music records.
On that point, he joked, “I am analog.”
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