Showing posts with label DSB. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DSB. Show all posts
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Not a Toy! K1OA Making Contacts with the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver and a KA4KXX Transmitter

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T his goes to prove what we have been saying all along:  this receiver is not a toy!  It is capable of operating as part of a real 2-way ham...
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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, March 9, 2025

Nate KA1MUQ Turns His Frying Pan DC Receiver into a Double Sideband Transceiver and Works Idaho from California

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Wow, you can see the look of homebrew satisfaction as Nate works Idaho from California with his homebrew Double Sideband Transceiver.  It is...
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Thursday, February 27, 2025

Derek N9TD's SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver -- With a Double Sideband Transmitter

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  Derek N9TD was another of the early builders of the Direct Conversion receiver; he has done really magnificent work.  He is an Electrical ...
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. ...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver Used in an SSB QSO in New Zealand by ZL1AUN

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  Aaron ZL1AUN used his homebrew SolderSmoke Direct Conversion receiver in a 40 meter SSB contact with his fellow New Zealand radio amateurs...
Saturday, February 1, 2025

USAF Video: Why SSB is Superior to Ordinary AM

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OK, the title of this blog post has an element of click bait in it.  Just this morning I was listening to the Old Military Radio Net on 3885...
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Sunday, April 28, 2024

A Soviet Tube in Cuba: The "Little Spider"

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I hope readers have picked up on the discussion of the Islander DSB rig out of Cuba. We had a bit of a breakthrough on this recently. I'...
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Friday, April 26, 2024

Re-building the Islander DSB/CW Tube Rig in Cuba

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The VFO Board The "motherboard" for an Islander Islander boards recently obtained in Cuba by CO7WT Pavel CO7WT is making great pro...
Monday, April 8, 2024

The Doug DeMaw Article that got me into Homebrew Double-Sideband

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Just click on the images for a better view Pete WB9FLW asked for this.  This was an important article for me -- it paved the way for my entr...
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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

A Contact with my Old Azorean DSB Transceiver

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I've been thinking about balanced modulators, and I wanted to see how some of my early circuits performed.  So I pulled this OLD Double ...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Some of my Double Sideband Rigs: Azores, Virginia, Dominican Republic

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The above video describe a round of mods to the much modded DSB rig. And my alleged winning of the ARRL Sweepstakes (in a very elite categor...
Sunday, July 16, 2023

The Super Islander Mark IV -- A Cuban DSB Transceiver Made From CFL Lightbulb Parts

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Trevor Woods also sent us this report from Arnie Coro.  It is not clear to me what difference (if any) there is between the Super Islander M...
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Saturday, July 15, 2023

The Jaguey Five -- The Solid State Cuban DSB Rig -- Circuit Description

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Obviously we need a picture of a Jaguey transceiver.  "Made in Jaguey Grande"  Trevor Woods found this report from Arnie Coro (SK)...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Arnie Coro: Jaguey Rig Designed in 1982, More info on the Rig

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Jaguey, Matanzas, Cuba Dxers Unlimited's mid week edition for 23-24 October 2007 By Arnie Coro Radio Amateur CO2KK ... My own personal ...
Sunday, April 9, 2023

Arnie Coro CO2KK (SK) Provides More Info on the Islander DSB rig

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Peter Parker VK3YE found this message from Arnie CO2KK in the Wayback Machine.  We continue to look for more information on the Jaguey solid...
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