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Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of NHK (July 24,
2025)
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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political
cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio
listening report of a rece...
5 hours ago
I have a feeling that home made transistors weren't quite as rare as people might think in the 50s and early 60s. An old friend of mine, sadly now a silent key talked about making them, and it being one of those "crazes" that sometimes propogate around school and colleges, though how the information was passed around, I'm really not at all sure - word of mouth I guess.
ReplyDeleteAlso worth going back to the father of the integrated circuit (usually regarded as being Jack Kilby, but there were precursors, and like most of that sort of invention, had parallel strands) and looking at what he did - that could almost of been done at home by an enterprising amateur.
Uh oh Bill, moving holes! But after reading SSGAWE, we all know how it REALLY works, don't we!
ReplyDeleteCool!
ReplyDeleteHmmm... Can't wait to see AA1TJ build a transmitter out of one of these!
ReplyDeleteI'm loving Solder Smoke so far!
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