Showing posts with label 17 meters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 17 meters. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Homebrew-to-Homebrew Contact on 17 meters with DL2RMM (Video)

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  Here is short clip of a very cool HB2HB contact on 17 meters.  Thanks Jens!  Check out his QRZ page here:  https://www.qrz.com/db/DL2RMM
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Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Nick's "Shelf-17" Al Fresco Homebrew Transceiver -- Frank Jones Would Approve!

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This is a really wonderful video from Nick M0NTV.   Some reactions:   -- Wow, a real celebration of Al Fresco!  And of the wooden chassis --...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2022

HF Bandsweep with the Hammarlund HQ-100 (video)

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It has been a while since we last did a bandsweep.  Too long.  Here is one using my recently fixed up Hammarlund HQ-100.  Repair details are...
Monday, April 25, 2022

75/20 - 17/12 Two Homebrew Rigs in Scrap-Wood Boxes

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  I moved the 17/12 Rig off the workbench and placed it (as planned) atop the Mythbuster rig.  Now I have four bands easily accessible.  In ...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022

The 17 & 12 SSB Transceiver -- Circuit and Build Info -- Video #4

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I REALLY LIKE THIS RIG. IT IS LIKE A MAGIC CARPET THAT CARRIES MY VOICE ACROSS THE SEAS. Cutting Display Hole sets off smoke alarm. Revers...
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Sunday, March 20, 2022

17 - 12 Dual Band SSB Transceiver On-The-Air

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  It is still completely al-fresco, with all the guts exposed, but I got it on the air this morning.  I was 17, running it through my CCI  ....
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Sunday, March 13, 2022

Video #3 17/12 Transceiver -- Receiver is Working on 12 and 17 meters (Listen! Video!)

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Here is an update on the 1712 transceiver project. The receiver circuitry is done and I can listen on 17 and 12 meters. In this video I w...
Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Video #2 17/12 SSB Transceiver -- Receive RF Amplifier Needed?

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Lots of progress to report on the 1712 rig.  With just two TIA amps (one on either side of the 10 pole filter) and the AF amplifiers, I now ...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2022

An Analog LC VFO for my 17/12 Meter SSB Transceiver (VIDEO #1)

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Here's my initial work on a VFO for my 17 meter -- 12 Meter Single Conversion Dual Band SSB Transceiver. The IF (crystal filter) will be...
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Thursday, February 3, 2022

Exorcism Lite -- Spur Suppressed on 17 meter Transmitter -- Split TX/RX Station On The Air

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I spent most of January in the tropics, away from my workbench.  This seems to have had a good effect on my 17 meter split TX/RX project.  A...
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Wednesday, February 2, 2022

The NCDXF/IARU Beacons (very useful website)

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  So there I was, innocently checking the lower end of the tuning range on my now 17 meter SSB Barebones Barbados W4OP receiver.  I had it t...
Monday, January 10, 2022

Exorcism Not Quite Complete -- Thinking of Other Options

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As often happens, I may have jumped the gun in declaring the exorcism of my 17 meter transmitter to be a success. As readers of this blog wi...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2021

How to Fix the Spur Problem in my 17 Meter SSB Transmitter?

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  I built the transmitter almost 20 years ago.  It is in the larger box, which originally housed a Heathkit DX-40.  There is a lot of soul i...
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Saturday, December 18, 2021

On 17 meter CW from Santo Domingo with a uBITX

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We are up on the 12th floor of a building in Santo Domingo. I brought my uBITX and managed to check in as baggage a 16-foot crappie fishing...
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Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Putting a Barebones Superhet on 17 Meters with an NE602 Converter (Video)

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Armed now with a NanoVNA, I took a look at the passband of the 5 MHz filter in my Barebones Superhet (BBRX)  W4OP built it on a Circuit Boar...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

The HBR-13C Receiver and the Poetic License of Homebrewers

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I've been hanging out on 17 meters with my homebrew VXO-controlled BITX transceiver.  The antenna is my 75 meter doublet fed with window...
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Friday, August 27, 2021

SolderSmoke Podcast #232 -- Mythbuster, Pete's Tube CW Rig, Pete's DC RX and Simple SSB Rig, NanoVNA and TinySA, Very FB Mailbag

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SolderSmoke Podcast #232 is available -- Crank it in Robert! http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke232.mp3 Featuring a guitar intro by Pete &quo...
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Saturday, December 19, 2020

A Very Clever Way to Build a Moxon for 17 and 20 meters

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Jim AB9CN sent us Dan Zimmerman N3OX's page in response to my plea for help in SolderSmoke #227.   I think this is a very clever and att...
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

SolderSmoke Podcast #227: Solar System, SDR, Simple SSB, HA-600A, BITX17, Nesting Moxons? Mailbag

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SolderSmoke Podcast #227 is available:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke227.mp3 Travelogue Mars is moving away.  Jupiter and Saturn clos...
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Saturday, December 5, 2020

Adding 10 kHz of Coverage to My BITX 17

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  Solar Cycle 25 is underway.  The Solar Flux Index and Sunspot numbers are up considerably.  I have dusted off my old BITX17 transceiver.  ...
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