Showing posts with label Dominican Republic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dominican Republic. Show all posts
Thursday, April 3, 2025

My Hanmilt HK 22 Drone -- Video and a still picture

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This is the beginners's drone that I was using in the Dominican Republic this past winter.  It was really great.  The hover capability w...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Falcon 9 Rocket Flies Over the Dominican Republic -- February 18, 2025

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Just 30 minutes prior to this, my wife Elisa happened to see on Instagram a map showing the flight path of the Falcon 9. We didn't know ...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

Light Beam Communication from the Dominican Republic?

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Mike WN2A sent me the PIC board to generate the CW for my "Lil Slugger" Doug DeMaw transmitter.  Then I started wondering about ha...
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Monday, January 27, 2025

First 10 Meter AM Contact from Hi7/N2CQR

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I threw this in the bag on the way to the DR, almost as an afterthought.  But I am glad I did.  Today, watching reports on my 10 meter CW be...
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Sunday, January 26, 2025

Fireball (Meteor) Over the Dominican Republic

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Click on the link below to see the video https://www.tiktok.com/@william.de.jesus01/video/7464040455185993002 I had been telling Mike WN2A h...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The 10 meter Beacon at HI7/N2CQR (and reception reports)

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Above is the 10 Meter beacon at HI7/N2CQR. The first one to hear the beacon was Dean KK4DAS in Northern Virginia, within hours of it going ...
Monday, January 13, 2025

SolderSmoke Podcast #256: HNY SKN, LA Fires, Barkhausen! Southern Cross, Homebrew vs. Kits, AN762 Kit, Woe, Beacon, ARRL Kids, SDR Build, DC RX videos, Pete Hacked! Power alternatives, KWM4, Mailbag

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A Tale of Woe!  SolderSmoke Podcast #256 is available:  Audio:  https://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke256.mp3 Video:   https://www.youtube.com/...
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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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Monday, January 6, 2025

A Tale of Woe -- Troubleshooting my 15-10 Rig in the Dominican Republic

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-- Problem first showed up as a low level oscillation in the background.  Annoying.  -- I suspected the simple AF amp from the TJ DC RX proj...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Bill N2CQR Builds Yet Another Mythbuster Transceiver

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  This one is for 20 meters (no need for 75) and will go to the Dominican Republic. 6 crystal filter at 5.2 MHz. VFO from old Yaesu FT-101 ...
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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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Thursday, August 1, 2024

The Tropics Defined: Sun Directly Overhead on July 31 in Punta Cana DR

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July 31, 2024  12:30 Local Time Check out the shadow at my feet.  The sun is directly overhead.  This happens here on July 31, shortly after...
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Monday, July 29, 2024

A Wonderful Aeronatical Mobile Contact

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  29 July 2024 20S 0943Z 0543L K8JSM/AM Sean, pilot on a 757/300. En route from San Francisco to Orlando with 246 souls on board, including ...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Some Pictures of SolderSmoke Shack South

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That's me at the operating position.   Window looks out to the terrace and to the ocean to the East, the  Mona channel.  The shack is on...
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Thursday, July 18, 2024

SolderSmoke Podcast #252 -- First Podcast from SolderSmoke Shack South

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For the moment this podcast is video only.  The video appears above.  Here is the URL for the video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeNTv3...
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Monday, July 15, 2024

15/10 SSB Rig On-The-Air from HI7

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I'm going to move the antenna up onto the roof (out of sight).   
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Progress Report Video on the SolderSmoke Shack South

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The new shack is coming together in HI7 land.   I will need a shelf for the test gear -- I am looking for something thatcan sit on the main ...
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Saturday, June 15, 2024

Sticker Madness, HI7, April 1

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Our friend Lex astutely focused on the date of the release of our report about legal prosecution by the City of San Francisco.  The truth is...
Friday, June 14, 2024

Greetings from Low Earth Orbit

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We are in the Dominican Republic for a little while. Yesterday we got Starlink working.   The picture show me holding the cell phone heraldi...
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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...