Showing posts with label CW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CW. Show all posts
Monday, December 9, 2024

Listening to 40 meters on the DC Receiver -- And I Heard a Distinguished Homebrewer!

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I made the video above to show postential builders how useful our Direct Conversion receiver really is.   Late in the video (starting at 11:...
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Thursday, September 19, 2024

AG5VG's Homebrew 20 meter Superhet (with a CW rig Coming) (Video)

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  Michael AG5VG finished this receiver last weekend.  He hopes to build a CW transmitter using an output of the Si5351.  Obviously I defer t...
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Monday, September 16, 2024

"QRP Classics" The Book that Got Me Started in Homebrew

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https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2022/09/fixing-up-old-homebrew-rig-barebones.html A question this morning from Scott KQ4AOP caused me to Go...
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Friday, September 6, 2024

Ham Radio in the 1970s (and earlier, with some cool Jazz). What favorite rigs do you see?

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Rogier PA1ZZ sent me this today.  I think I may have seen pieces of it before, but this restoration  is really nice.  But ham radio seems to...
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Thursday, May 16, 2024

A Light-beam QSO in Hollandia, Christmas 1944

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This old QST article caught my eye, largely because my father was also in Hollandia on that  Christmas day in 1944.  He was in the Navy hos...
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Saturday, May 11, 2024

Helge SM/LA6NCA Activates Colorburst Liberation Army in Sweden!

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FB Helge.   This is really cool.  I didn't realize until I saw the schematic at the end that he was on 3579 kHz -- that is the old color...
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Saturday, May 4, 2024

W4YWA's Homebrew Rig on 20 Meters

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  Ed W4YWA is far too modest -- he has built a very FB homewbrew transmitter.  Congratulations Ed.  I think your original plan to use a Web ...
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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

KE5HPY Builds a QRP Transmitter

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  FB Chuck, very cool.  Please send us more reports on this rig.   Chuck has been on the blog many times, with many projects:  https://solde...
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Sunday, April 21, 2024

The War of the Worlds -- In CW -- By Chuck Adams AA7FO

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This is for CW fans, or for those wishing to improve their CW skills.  You can now listen to the entire H.G. Wells book in CW, thanks to Chu...
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Sunday, April 7, 2024

Another CW Contact with the SupeRX/TX 40 (Video)

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I changed the crystal in the transmitter.  I got a different rock from Mouser and am now on 7030.   Wednesday April 3, 2024. On 40 meters in...
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Thursday, April 4, 2024

MXM SupeRX/TX 40 Rig Info

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  My SupeRX/TX 40 -- now on 7030 kHz Click on schematics for a better view Details on the receiver:  https://archive.org/details/73-magazine...
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Friday, March 29, 2024

A QRP CW Contact (Video) with the Winterfest MXM SupeRX/TX 40 (1 Watt, Crystal Controlled Transmitter)

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I picked this transceiver up at Winterfest for one dollar. 40 meters. Superhet receiver with 455 kc ceramic filter and 2 NE602s. Crystal ...
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Monday, March 18, 2024

Listen to me talking to Jean Shepherd in 1976. I was 18 years-old.

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Wow, here is a blast from the past.  I recently read a good article about Shepherd by A. David Wunsch in the Spring 2022 issue of the AWA Jo...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

We Get Mail! Red Poster? Really a Tapestry from Ecuador

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Listener Tobias was laid up yesterday, following the extraction of wisdom teeth. (This seems like an appropriate follow-up to our talk in So...
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Monday, January 1, 2024

Happy New Year! Straight Key Night at N2CQR (video)

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As you know, here at SolderSmoke East HQ we are all about TRADITION.  So last night (New Year's eve) I fired up my venerable HT-37 / Dra...
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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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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Nine Homebrew Transceivers by Walter KA4KXX (and some QRP and QRO RC planes)

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  Our friend Walter KA4KXX in Orlando recently sent us this really cool "family photo" of his homebrew rigs.  Be sure to see the k...
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Thursday, June 1, 2023

George Heron N2APB talks about Coherent CW at FDIM: Interview #7 by Bob Crane W8SX

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It was great to hear George's voice again.  I was a big fan of his "Chat with the Designers" podcast. And it was great to see ...
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Friday, May 26, 2023

Coffee with Farhan VU2ESE (video)

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Early morning in the N2CQR shack, May 16, 2023 -- Propagation -- Web sites (RBN, PSK Reporter, others) -- CW -- Homebrew rigs -- VFOs
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Saturday, March 18, 2023

The Islander -- A Homebrew DSB Rig from Cuba

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  This article, the pictures, and the comments are all so cool. They really capture the spirit of homebrew.  Obviously we still need more in...
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