Showing posts with label 15-10 Transceiver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 15-10 Transceiver. Show all posts
Monday, April 1, 2024

SolderSmoke Podcast #251 Aurora! CBLA, Winterfest, Legal Action Against SolderSmoke, HB sBITX, SDR, Raspberry Pi, Rounded Passbands, MAILBAG

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Aurora Picture by Dean KK4DAS S olderSmoke Podcast #251   4-1-2024 Audio: http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke251.mp3 Videos:  Podcast 251 Aur...
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Friday, March 15, 2024

Finishing up (?) Version 2 of my 15-10 Transceiver (Video) -- An Annoying Residual Carrier Problem

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Front panel is on. RF PA is installed. Balanced Modulator problem fixed (?) Rig is on the air with about 3 watts, working lots of DX. But t...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Using the RF Power Amplifier of the BITX40 Module

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  PA shematic from the BITX 40 Module Click on the diagram for a better view C.F. Rockey W9SCH (who alerted us in SPRAT 22 to the chicken sa...
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Sunday, February 25, 2024

Innovation and a Dual Band Sweep with Version 2 of the 15-10 Transceiver

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Here are a couple of videos on Version 2 of my 15-10 SSB transceiver.  In the video above I try to show the advances and innovations that ha...
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Saturday, February 10, 2024

SolderSmoke Podcast #250 Dean KK4DAS joins Pete N6QW and Bill N2CQR

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SolderSmoke Podcast # 250 is ready for download:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke250.mp3 VIDEO VERSION:  (1707) SolderSmoke Podcast #250 ...
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Friday, February 2, 2024

First Light! First Signals received on Version II of Homebrew 15-10 Transceiver

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Ianis S51DX in Slovenia was the first call sign heard. Some peaking and tweaking remains to be done, but the receiver is working. Congra...
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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

My Manhattan-style Termination Insensitive Amplifier Production Line

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  You gotta love the name, right?  It sounds like some sort of psychological condition.  Perhaps someone who just doesn't care  if his g...
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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Yet ANOTHER Homebrew 15-10 SSB Transceiver (Video #1)

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A homebrew 15-10 SSB Rig for the Dominican Republic: This is my second build of this rig. I am using a 10 pole crystal filter that I built ...
Monday, January 15, 2024

Clock Chimes from Japan - Contact with JA0LBE

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This contact with Masa was a lot of fun.  2300Z January 14, 2024.  15 meters was obviously in great shape.  Suddenly I started hearing clock...
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Friday, January 12, 2024

QF-1 Variable Capacitor Problem -- What Should I do?

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For years I have been heartlessly slaughtering innocent Heathkit Q multipliers, just to get these variable capacitors. Dean KK4DAS has join...
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Friday, November 10, 2023

SolderSmoke Podcast #249 -- Travel, Pete's 6BA6 rig, Books!, VFOs, SDR, Computers, Spectrum Analysers, Transistor Man! MAILBAG

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New VFO for 15-10 Transceiver Schematic below SolderSmoke Podcast #249 is available:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke249.mp3 There is als...
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Sunday, October 22, 2023

DIAL SCALE LINEARITY -- Spreading out the Frequencies for the 15-10 BITX Rig

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Click on the image for a better view The 15-10 Rig has been performing very well, pulling in a lot of DX contacts on both bands.  But there ...
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Monday, September 25, 2023

Crushing Spurs with Better Bandpass Filters

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PA3AKE's passband (on screen) an mine (on NanoVNA)  While I was away in the Dominican Republic (3-9 August 2023),  I was thinking about ...
Sunday, August 20, 2023

15 Meter Homebrew SSB Rig As Heard in Mexico City

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  19 August 2023. Ralph XE1RK recorded part of our QSO and played it back to me. Thanks Ralph! I was running about 75 watts to a hex beam a...
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Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Working Indonesia and Chile with new 15-10 Homebrew Transceiver

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Conditions were good this morning, and the Radio Gods continue to favor homebrew rigs.  I got on 15 meters SSB with the new 15-10 dual bande...
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Sunday, July 23, 2023

First Contacts with 15-10 Rig -- Two Atlantic Crossings

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  I was just testing it, working (as usual at this stage) on final amplifier stability.   Then I heard ON5WO calling CQ.   I could not resis...
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Monday, July 10, 2023

Martein's Bandpass Filters - PA3AKE

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Above you can see the really nice 15 meter filter that I built using data provided by Martein PA3AKE.  https://martein.home.xs4all.nl/pa3ake...
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