Sunday, August 7, 2011

SolderSmoke Podcast #136

http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke136.mp3
August 7, 2011
Travelogue: New York City
A Stroke of Luck: Lightning strikes Rome HB DC DSB WSPR rig
It's an IGY thing: Recreating the Sputnik Transmitter
ArisSAT-1 deployed. Audio Clip (Can anyone decode the SSTV in this clip?)
Summertime SPRAT -- ZL2BMI rig and the mysteries of the '602
A writer for "The New Yorker" builds a radio
June Smithsonian Magazine has a lot of Knack
Electric Radio on AM selectivity, Japanese, and the sibilant S problem
Gathering Drake 2-B Serial numbers for use with German Tank Equation
Amazon breaks into oscillation on "Atoms to Ampere" prices
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2 comments:

  1. I enjoyed your description of the elevated park in NY. I wonder if anyone's been QRV from there?

    73 and ROOSCCH!

    Steve Smith WB6TNL
    "Snort Rosin"

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  2. Just heard the part from Electric Radio on AM selectivity. Is the author working up to synchronous detection? It's been a feature of better communications receivers ever since the Sony ICF-2010. Nice article about this from QEX is online here:
    http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/tis/info/pdf/9209qex009.pdf

    73 de KC7IT

    PS: Your podcasted sibilants are perfect.

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