SolderSmoke Podcast #246 is available:
AUDIO PODCAST: http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke246.mp3
YouTube VIDEO: (247) SolderSmoke Podcast #246: uBITX, Hex Beam, DX, High School DC RX, 10 meter SSB Rig, MAILBAG - YouTube
The AI Deep Fake Threat! PeteGPT!
Hearing Aid info: I
can hear the cymbals in my audiogram adjusted Airpods.
Update on the TJ DC RX project – Several receivers working! https://hackaday.io/project/190327-high-schoolers-build-a-radio-receiver
Sunil’s company provides Nano/Si5351 combos. With the KD8CEC software. Very cool. http://amateurradiokits.in
They have a new SSB dual band transceiver – the Airpal.
Mark AJ6CU helping me. Sent me Nanos with KD8CEC software. His
uBITX Settings Editor seems very cool. https://github.com/AJ6CU/uBITX-Settings-Editor/releases/tag/V2-beta-1
Thanks Mark.
Franklin Oscillators.
Cuban Islander and Jaguey info. Send more!
Fixing up uBITX 2 How Bill blew up TWO Raduino Nanos. My results
with the KB1GMX mods. (see below)
Hex Beam work: Adding
10 and 15 meter elements. But now I can
hear AM breakthrough from WFAX 1220 AM
(5 kW during the day), So I made
a high pass filter.
Made first contacts on 15 and 10: Argentina, Brazil, Dominican Republic.
First contacts with both India VU3TPW and China BA4TB. SSB homebrew.
sBITX news. Taking orders!
Pete’s 10 Meter SSB Project
Mailbag:
--Lex PH2LB. uBITX mods. TO-18 Heatsinks. New stickers (see above).
--Kostos SV3ORA and Hans G0UPL about the Franklin Oscillator.
--Listening to HRWB 178: Great stuff, many old friends: George KJ6VU moved to Oregon. Thomas K4SWL on the show. Ben, an old friend of Pete’s, mentions John Zaruba K2ZA – the guy who gave me the DX-100. Wonderful connections.
--Thanks to Todd VE7BPO for sending me another AADE LC meter. I need it for the SSSS.
--Nick MONTV planning a 15/10 meter dualband SSB rig. Me too! See video.
--Trevor Woods in W. Australia – The portrait in Artie Moore’s shack. Chuck WB9KZY – Willam Ramsay
--LA6NCA Helge three tube RX. Regen or DC? Mike Masterson WN2A and I discuss.
--Mike WU2D video on Retro QRP rigs – Steve G0FUW discusses Severn rig long in the works –started 1983 and nearly finished!
--Tim Hunkin of Secret Life fame did video with speaker made from potato ship bag. Discussed with Tony G4WIF and others. Also, Tim has an amazing video on cutting holes in metal. On the SolderSmoke blog.
--Bob Crane W8SX will be covering FDIM for SolderSmoke!
--Glen VE3DNL working on a more sophisticated DC RX.
--Craig KC2LFI from the beach on Grand Cayman. FB.
--Steve EI5DD reports We have changed our name - The May Issue of the HAM RADIO IRELAND Magazine, Ireland’s only independent magazine for the Radio Experimenter: https://docdro.id/SHH0VEy
--Mike EI0CL on 15 meters with Dean KK4DAS. FB
--Howard N3FEL of the Penn Wireless Association wants to do a group build of a DC RX.
--Martin LW9DTR in Buenos Aires looking for help with the code for an AD9850
--Todd K7TFC – always helping other homebrewers.
--Really thoughtful message from Kevin WN7Z
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I'm glad to hear of your surface-mount success with the BFR106s. Using SMDs is like any other sin: the more you do it the easier it becomes.
ReplyDeleteTodd: In an e-mail to Pete and Dean I described the experience of soldering in the BFR106 without the MDIYRF board: I said that I had "gone commando." I also used another more recent expression but I will not repeat that here because this is a family show. "Going Commando" is right at the limit -- the other one crosses the line. I'm sure you will understand. I will e-mail you the message, and will cc our lexicographer (KB3SII) 73 Bill
ReplyDeleteGreetings!
ReplyDeleteSolderSmoke Podcast #246 was a blast! Thanks for the mention (Franklin Oscillators/ Regen DC receiver). Two Notes:
1) TinySA,etc .For that matter Any SA. It seems that many builders forget that the SA front-end is a non-linear mixer or sampler of some kind. So if you see excessive harmonics from your transmitter, the SA front-end needs protection, and not just attenuators. Calibrated Notch-filters are indispensable for reducing the fundamental, allowing the harmonics to be measured.
2) Butler,Franklin,all them guys: Usually Franklin has two inverting stages providing 360-degree phase in a VFO. Usually you see Butler as an Emitter-Coupled XTAL oscillator, one or two stages. But there are many variations within these two. And there are all the other ones like Peltz and more...