Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Alan Wolke W2AEW's Build of the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver

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We were already very proud to put Alan Wolke W2AEW in our Hall of Fame .  But Alan put icing on the cake this morning by making his own vide...
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Thursday, May 29, 2025

SolderSmoke Podcast #260 FDIM, Hollow State Design, Pete's Bench and the Shelf of Shame, Direct Conversion Project News, How Best to Preserve this Blog?, Dean's Bench and the Desk of Despair, Bill's Bench and the Garage of Grief, MAILBAG

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SolderSmoke Podcast #260 is available:  Audio version:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke260.mp3 Video version:  https://www.youtube.com/w...
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Sunday, May 25, 2025

HCJB is now in Western Australia. In "The Kimberly." And VK6JMS can use their antenna.

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I grew up listening to HCJB's shortwave broadcasts from Quito, Ecuador.  Fast forward to the present:  This week I have had two radio ...
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Saturday, May 17, 2025

Stephen VK2BLQ's Very FB EARLY build of the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver

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  This was back in the old days, long before we had Discord.  It was early 2023, and we were getting ready to start the Direct Conversion re...
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Peter Parker VK3YE finds a Homebrew Double Sideband Transceiver at an Australian Hamfest

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Peter's detective work on the mystery box starts at around 13 minutes into this video.  He quickly found a balanced modulator and did no...
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Sunday, April 27, 2025

Chris VK1CHW's FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver -- With A Very Innovative Homebrew PTO Coil Form

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Chris VK1CHW sent us the above "proof of life" video.  And alive it is!  FB Chris.  I especially liked the approach he took to the...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Rob VK5RC's FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver. MDS?

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Rob VK5RC has completed his SolderSmoke direct conversion receiver.  Congratulations Rob.  And it is good to know what we have a Medical Doc...
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Friday, March 14, 2025

Garry's FB Australian SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver with "Free Tree Printed" PTO Coil Form

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Garry built a really nice receiver.  I think he is in Australia.  His PTO coil form is  "a piece off an old rotten Australian red cedar...
Thursday, February 27, 2025

VK4PG's Wonderful Australian Direct Conversion Receiver from Sunny Queensland

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It was really great to hear those Australian voices coming from Phil's receiver.  Check out the video above.  Phil writes:   Completion!...
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Peter VK3TPM's SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver (and his follow-on DSB transmitter) -- From Australia

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Peter VK3TPM is a long-time member of the SolderSmoke community.  He is a software developer and technology commentator based in Melbourne. ...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

A Saw the Southern Cross (Crux) This Morning (first time in 30 years!)

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You can see it (above) in the picture I took this morning, with my Iphone.  I think I last saw this important constellation more than 30 yea...
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Thursday, October 17, 2024

How to Organize a Small Shack

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A YouTube comment from Paul VK3HN sent me back to "The Spirited Man" YouTube channel , and one of the first things I found was thi...
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Friday, April 19, 2024

Deep Space Station 43 -- Canberra, Australia

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  https://spectrum.ieee.org/apollo-era-antenna-voyager-2 From the IEEE article:   The dish’s manufacturer took great pains to ensure that it...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

Paul VK3HN's Video on Scratch-Building and SOTA

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It was great to get a comment from Paul VK3HN -- this led to a re-establishment of contact.  Apparently Google knows who I have been e-maili...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

A Low-Power (QRP) Contact from Australia to Spain (with video from both sides!)

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A recent comment on the blog put me back in contact with an old friend of SolderSmoke:  Paul VK3HN.  Paul is an amazing homebrewer -- it was...
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Thursday, September 28, 2023

A Look at Old Radios in Australia (video)

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I thought you guys would like Peter Parker's latest video.  And in it, Dean KK4DAS might see a clue or two for his Halli restoration/re...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Ciprian YO6DXE Puts the Michigan Mighty Mite on AM! (video)

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Excellent work Ciprian!   Here we have a Michigan Mighty Mite being modified for AM in Romania, with input from Hungary, and inspiration fro...
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Australia and Apollo 11 -- Honeysuckle Creek

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Trevor reminded me that Parkes ("The Dish") was not the only Australian antenna at work during Apollo 11.  This very nice video gi...
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023

VK2BLQ Builds the High-School Direct Conversion Receiver

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It is truly a thing of beauty.  Stephen VK2BLQ built it just as we designed it, so his build (like those of several others) serves as confir...
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Friday, December 2, 2022

But why? Why Can't I Listen to DSB (or AM) on my Direct Conversion Receiver?

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I've said this before:  I just seems so unfair.  We just should be able to listen to DSB signals with our beautifully simple homebrew Di...
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