Showing posts with label Dominican Republic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dominican Republic. Show all posts
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...
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Yet ANOTHER Homebrew 15-10 SSB Transceiver (Video #1)

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A homebrew 15-10 SSB Rig for the Dominican Republic: This is my second build of this rig. I am using a 10 pole crystal filter that I built ...
Friday, December 29, 2023

7J6CBQ on Okinawa -- And a Translation of a Science Fiction Novel about Ham Radio in China

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  The article about Sergeant Malik Pugh USMC on Okinawa brought back memories from the 1990s. David Cowhig was 73 Magazine's Hambassado...
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Friday, February 17, 2023

Ham Radio Pico Balloons Feared Shot Down by USAF

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The Aviation Week article below helped to confirm some of my worst fears about the balloon thing.  For a long I've wanted to launch one ...
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Friday, February 10, 2023

SolderSmoke Podcast #243 -- HI7/N2CQR, uBITX mods for 10 meters, High-School Direct Conversion Receiver Project Launched (Success!) Mailbag

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  DC RX and one of the PTO boards we built as demos last night.  February 10, 2023 SolderSmoke Podcast #224 is available.  http://soldersm...
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Saturday, January 21, 2023

My HI7/N2CQR QSL Card

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My fellow Vienna Wireless Society Member Ron WA6YOU is a real expert collector of QSL cards.  He was rightly critical of a very crude homebr...
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Sunday, January 15, 2023

Working Walter KA4KXX from Hispaniola

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  Walter KA4KXX in Orlando has been a prolific builder of rigs for many years, and has been a great friend of SolderSmoke:  Here are some of...

Working Vienna Wireless Society member (KA4CDN) from Hispaniola

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We'll be heading back to the States soon and I was feeling guilty about  not having worked anyone from my home club (the Vienna Wireless...
Thursday, January 12, 2023

On Ten Meters with a uBITX from the Eastern Tip of Hispaniola

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On ten from HI7.  Cluster spots, DX, CW, and the Reverse Beacon Network.   
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Sunday, January 1, 2023

Happy New Year and Straight Key Night from HI7/N2CQR

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HNY from HI7!  In keeping with SolderSmoke tradition, I recorded the above greeting.  If you look over my right shoulder, or in the picture ...
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