Showing posts with label Barbados. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barbados. Show all posts
Friday, September 16, 2022

Fixing Up An Old Homebrew Rig -- Barebones Superhet and VXO 6 Watter

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  I'm not exactly sure why I pulled this old rig off the shelf, but I'll write up what I did -- I often use this blog as a kind of n...
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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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Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Junk Box Sideband from the Azores (2004 QST Article)

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About 20 years after I first built it, I find myself working on and using this SSB transmitter.    I recently added some impedance matching...
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Monday, July 19, 2021

Michael Newton Hopkins, AB5L, Author of the FMLA series

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Better than anyone else ever has, Michael Hopkins, in his fictional series about Frank Jones and the Five Meter Liberation Army , captures t...
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Saturday, May 14, 2016

A Lot of Soul in the Barbados Receiver

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After a rather frustrating period working on the Hallicrafters S38-E, I decided to do something different, maybe work on something that...
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Doug DeMaw's Rigs Found, Donated to ARRL for Exhibit

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http://www.arrl.org/news/museum-donates-doug-demaw-w1fb-homebrew-equipment This is really good news (Thanks to Pete Eaton for the alert...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Broadening the Barebones Barbados Receiver

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I 've been working on the crystal filter of the Barbados Barebones Superhet receiver.  This was designed by Doug DeMaw in 1982.  This...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Edgy Skimmer Antenna

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For the last few days I've been hanging out on 20 meter CW, 14.050 - 14.060 MHz, using my re-built W1VD/Barbados rig.   I've had ...
Saturday, March 9, 2013

Richard's Rip-Van-Winkle Barbados Rig

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Dear Bill, Thank you for taking a few minutes to read my email. I recently found your blog and enjoyed reading the entries.  However, th...