Bill's DXCC-100. DONE.
Tribal Wisdom: W1REX on HRWB https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2023/11/listen-to-rex-w1rex-lots-of-tribal.html
Pete's Bench:
Pete's 6BA6 rig
Pete Re-invents the Shirt-pocket SSB Rig
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Mostly DIY RF: Work proceeds in the Oregon Silicon Forest on P3ST kit development. Todd is confident the P3ST will be released on December 18th.Many other kits available now: https://mostlydiyrf.com/
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Rebuild of the 15-10 VFO (for improved Dial Spread) (with yet another QF-1 capacitor) https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2023/10/dial-scale-linearity-spreading-out.html
Why Building for 10 meters is harder: https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2023/09/why-building-for-10-meters-is-harder.html
Copper Tape shielding of 15-10 rig.
Crushing Spurs with Better Bandpass Filters (see blog post) https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2023/09/crushing-17-and-12-meter-spurs-with.html
Another 15-10 rig in the works... for SSSS. Boards are accumulating...
More problems discovered with the Herring Aid 5 Receiver . Lots of SS blog posts Comment from Rick WD5L. ) https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-big-error-discovered-in-1976-qst.html Did you try to build one? Did you succeed or did you fail? Please let us know.
The Basil Mahon books (blog posts) https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2023/11/basil-mahon-is-author-for-us-he.html
The Sunburst and Luminary book of Don Eyles (blog posts)
The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill (blog posts)
Spectrum Analysers: Tiny SA Ultra https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-tinysa-ultra-spectrum-analyser-video.html and Polarad 632C-1; George WB5OYP gave me one of these spectrum analysers (I NEED a manual! Does anyone have a manual or a schematic? ) :
Stabilizing the EB63A (with Pete recommended LP filters from e-Bay.
MAILBAG:
TRANSISTOR MAN T-SHIRTS! Thanks to Roy WN3F!
Todd VE7BPO on AF amplifiers. Thanks Todd.
Wes W7ZOI -- Always a privilege to exchange e-mail with Wes.
E-mail from Jay Rusgrove W1VD. About the Herring Aid 5.
E-mail from Eamon Skelton EI9GQ! Amazing!
HB2HB with Denny VU2DGR https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2023/09/hb2hb-contact-with-denny-vu2dgr.html
Nick M0NTV on diode matching for ring mixers: https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2023/10/does-matching-matter-diode-matching-for.html
Paul Taylor VK3HN on the new Elecraft CW rig.
Dean KK4DAS fixed the noise in his Hallicrafters SW receiver. A long battle, finally won.
Dean also in contact with G3UUR.
Ramakrishnan VU2JXN helping me set up a backup of blog on WordPress.
Mark KA9OOI noticed that SS podcast archive appears gone. In fact just temporarily relocated to http://soldersmoke.com/
(SS PODCAST Archive temporarily relocated to http://soldersmoke.com/
Andreas DL1AJG - Crystal radio video. https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2023/10/building-crystal-set-videos.html
George N2APB on the Herring Aid 5
Grayson KJ7UM experimenting with Varactors and Thermatrons!
Thomas K4SWL on Mattia's DC receiver. https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2023/10/mattia-zamanas-amazing-direct.html
Bob Weaver of Dial Bandspread Linearity fame. Electron Bunker
Mike Bryce WB8VGE QRP Hall of famer -- he too couldn't get the Herring Aid 5 working.
Kirk NT0Z wrote about the Wayback machine. But this former ARRL staffer he also tried and failed to get the Herring Aid 5 going. Way back when... https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2015/03/kirks-herring-aid-tuna-tin-and-regen.html
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Dear Bill:
ReplyDeleteAs you mentioned in the podcast, I agree that soldering all components on the top of the board with Manhattan pads is by far the preferable way to homebrew.
I recently bought and built a DIYRF TIA kit, and this re-enforced the fact that the through-hole method, while being compact, is extremely difficult to trouble-shoot and repair or modify.
Therefore I wish you would convince Todd to change to offering one-sided Manhattan-style printed circuit boards, with plain copper on the second side that can optionally be connected to the ground on the top.
Also, it would have been nice if you and Pete could have met in person for the first time (except for your joint April 1 business trip to Hollywood), maybe each driving halfway.
However, I have not left Central Florida in 6 years and now I only drive about 1500 miles a year, so I know how it is when you get old!
Thanks Walter. The campaign to keep our rigs "above board" has begun. As for Pete, I would love to meet him, but he is carrying some very heavy family responsibilities (with impressive grace) so this kind of meeting is impossible. But we have the podcast! 73 Bill
DeleteOne might add, the polarized relays don't have a diode in them - they are magnetically polarized. Only if the current flows in the right direction, the electromagnetic and permanent magnetic field add, excerting enough force to move the contacts. It's done to reduce the necessary current.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that. Thanks. 73
DeleteYou have no idea how bad I hate kits, all of them need modded, and I destroy through hole PCBs left and right, it is totally aggravating Ed KC8SBV
ReplyDeleteI'm with you Ed!
DeleteHeres a Polarad Tech Info site.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.polarad.com/index.shtml
Also might want to post a Polarad manual request at the appropriate group here:
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Hi! The RSS feed for the podcast se ms to have vanished. I miss the automatic updates. It used to be at http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke.rss
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