Showing posts with label Amateur Television. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amateur Television. Show all posts
Saturday, January 28, 2023

Hugo Gernsback -- Was he Like Wayne Green?

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"The Electrical Experimenter" sent to me by Nick M0NTV reminded me of Hugo Gernsback.  Many of the radio books I have on my shelf ...
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Monday, May 30, 2022

A Modern Mechanical Television -- Nipkow Discs and Arduinos Lead to a Mechanical Color TV (video)

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I had, of course, heard about the mechanical TV systems that pre-dated the CRT-based "electronic TV" invented by Philo Farnsworth....
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Saturday, May 7, 2022

SolderSmoke Podcast #237 is available: TV Show! No! W9YEI's 1939 TV. 1712 Rig. HQ-100. New SDR Rig and Book. JF3HZB's VFO Digital Dial. FIELD DAY! PSSST. MAILBAG

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SolderSmoke podcast #237 is available:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke237.mp3 Travelogue -- New York City!  Stickers! And about that tri...
Saturday, April 23, 2022

Looking at the World Through a 1 inch Cathode Ray Tube (the RCA 913) (videos)

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Joh DL6ID sent me the above video.  We have been e-mailing each other about the W9YEI Television Receiver built in 1939 or so.  We have kind...
Friday, April 22, 2022

1942 (?) RCA Film on Tubes, Radio, Research, and Television

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Here is a very interesting video from RCA.   It was released in 1942,  but it looks to me as if it was produced BEFORE the Pearl Harbor atta...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Conclusions About W9YEI's Early (1940?) Homebrew Television Receiver

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It may have looked something like this.  Recent build of the Scozarri receiver by Jack Neitz Joh DL6ID and I have been exchanging e-mails in...
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Friday, April 15, 2022

TV Homebrew 84 years ago -- Tracking Down W9YEI's 1939 Television Receiver -- The CRT He Probably Used -- Please Help Find More Info

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From October 1938 QST "Building Television Receivers with Standard Cathode Ray Tubes"  by J. B. Sherman  A recent Hack-A-Day artic...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

W9YEI's Homebrew 1939 TV?

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  I've been thinking about Jean Shepherd's 1973 description of the homebrew TV receiver built by his friend Johnny Anderson W9YEI in...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

John Stanley Anderson W9YEI -- Shep's Friend Who Homebrewed a TV Receiver in 1938

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  John Stanley "Johnny" Anderson -- son of John E. and Beda Klarin Anderson, natives of Sweden -- was born on July 19, 1918, in Ea...
Monday, April 11, 2022

Early Television, Jean Shepherd, Homebrewing, and Hack-A-Day

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It may have been something like this 1947 receiver.  But with a smaller CRT. Hack-A-Day has an article about early (1930s) television.  I w...
Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Taking Care of an Old Analog Machine -- The Scanimate

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Of course, I understand and sympathize completely.   Thanks for Rogier PA1ZZ for sending this.  
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Thursday, June 18, 2020

You must join the CONSTRUCTOR CRUSADERS

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Wow. This 1934 front-page presages so many things that we talk about today.  "The Constructor Crusaders,"  reminds me of ...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Happy Birthday Philo Farnsworth!

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Thanks to Bob Crane (and Garrison Keillor):   It's the birthday of Philo Taylor Farnsworth , the inventor of the television, born i...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

Some unbridled Australian enthusiasm... (Two Videos from Oz)

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Our book: "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" http://soldersmoke.com/book.htm Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bu...
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Monday, August 8, 2011

The Picture You Heard in SS 136 -- FROM SPAAAACE!

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In the last podcast I played a recording of some 2 meter signals picked up by my handheld transceiver from the new amateur radio satellite A...
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Saturday, July 12, 2008

UK Amateur TV: KNACK TO THE MAX

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You will really like the video archive of the British Amateur Television Club. Start out with the "Bob and Brian" show. It is ...