Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Grote Reber -- W9GFZ -- Radio Astonomy Pioneer, Homebrew Hero

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First off, what a great name. It is a real ham radio name.  Grote Reber.  And he was indeed a ham:  W9GFZ.    We don't have names like t...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

A Second Aeronautical Mobile Contact with Mike KX4WC/Aeronautical Mobile

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August 19, 2025 20 meter SSB in the afternoon. Mike KX4WC/Aeronautical Mobile was enroute to San Juan from Miami, flying through the edge...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

The Red-Shifted Neutral Hydrogen Signal from the Cosmic Dark Ages is in the Range of our Direct Conversion Receiver

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On the flight to the Dominican Republic I was listening to Fraser Cain's interview with Dr. Christiaan Brinkerink.   I was kind of blown...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Daniel VE5DLD's FOUR FB Saskatchewan SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receivers

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Daniel VE5DLD is a teacher in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.  Back in early 2023 several lucky students joined him in building the SolderSmok...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Wayde VA3NCA Receives SSB, CW, FT8, and CHU Canada on his SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver

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Above you can watch and listen to Wayde's receiver as he tunes across 40 meters.  It sounds good, even though Wayde is thinking about so...
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Friday, August 30, 2024

Mr. Carlson Makes a Thermatron Power Supply for a BC-348

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When I was 14, I had to make a power supply for a Heath HW-32A.   Mine ended up working, but it was nowhere near as nice as Mr. Carlson'...
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Thursday, February 1, 2024

Wilson Cloud Chambers - I Want to Build One

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Wow, I've been wanting to build a Wilson Cloud Chamber for a long time, ever since I read about one back in the 1970s in C.L. Stong'...
Sunday, October 22, 2023

DIAL SCALE LINEARITY -- Spreading out the Frequencies for the 15-10 BITX Rig

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Click on the image for a better view The 15-10 Rig has been performing very well, pulling in a lot of DX contacts on both bands.  But there ...
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Friday, June 30, 2023

SolderSmoke Podcast #247 -- Hating on the IC-7300, Pete Goes FT-8 with a KWM-1, Bill's 15-10 Rig, MAILBAG

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Bill's 15-10 Rig -- Click on image  SolderSmoke Podcast #247 is available:  Audio Podcast:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke247.mp3 Vi...
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Thursday, June 8, 2023

Canadian Build of the Direct Conversion Receiver -- Do This in Your Town! (Video)

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This is so cool.  We have been getting reports from Daniel VE5DLD up in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.  Daniel is a teacher and he has been b...
Friday, March 10, 2023

Troubleshooting an Intermittent with Mr. Carlson. And Troublesome Tube Re-Branding.

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This is a really great video on how Mr. Carlson (VE7ZWZ) did troubleshooting on a tube-type receiver. The problem was an intermittent.  They...
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Sunday, November 27, 2022

Mr. Carlson's New Lab and Workbench

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I am very glad to see that Mr. Carlson is NOT slowing down.  In fact he has built another lab and is ramping up.  FB!  
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Saturday, May 14, 2022

Mr. Carlson's Grand Receiver Restoration Project -- Your Input Sought (video)

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Mr. Carlson (VE7ZWZ) is launching a series of videos on the restoration of some old boatanchor receivers.  I have been working on an old HQ-...
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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, December 27, 2021

A Christmas Story: Mike AA1TJ Builds Receiver for 486 kHz, Listens to Fessenden Commemoration (Audio)

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Mike's 486 kHz receiver As if being able to get home on Christmas Eve 2021 and then catching the Webb Telescope launch was not enough, S...
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