Showing posts with label Drake 2B. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drake 2B. Show all posts
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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Friday, November 18, 2022

The 2Q -- A Homebrew Solid-State Drake 2-B from 1967

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This is really an amazing project.  Way back in 1967 (that's 55 years ago) John Aggers W5ETT of Ponca City, Oklahoma decided to homebrew...
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Monday, September 5, 2022

Why Do Some VFOs Tune More Linearly Than Others?

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This has been one of the major complaints about our beloved analog LC VFOs:   The frequency tuning on these circuits is often not linear.  F...
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Sunday, July 24, 2022

A Surprisingly Good Movie from the Late 1960s: "The Ham's Wide World" (Video)

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I found this movie to be surprisingly good.  Narrated by Arthur Godfrey, it features Barry Goldwater, and a lot of other hams.  There is a h...
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Thursday, February 3, 2022

Exorcism Lite -- Spur Suppressed on 17 meter Transmitter -- Split TX/RX Station On The Air

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I spent most of January in the tropics, away from my workbench.  This seems to have had a good effect on my 17 meter split TX/RX project.  A...
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Saturday, January 1, 2022

Straight Key Night 2021/2022 (Videos) -- Happy New Year!

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I made a few contacts on 40 meter CW using my old Hallicrafters HT-37 and Drake 2-B.  Happy New Year to all!  73   Bill 
Sunday, November 21, 2021

KG7TR's Magnificent 75S-2B Receiver -- Tubes, an Si5351, an Arduino, a Bit of Collins, and a Bit of a Drake 2-B

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  Oh man, I share this with much trepidation because the last time I posted something about the work of Mike KG7TR ,  Pete N6QW said he fel...
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Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Drake 2-B Advertisement

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A thing of beauty.  
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Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Pete's Drakes

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Pete Juliano N6QW has on his blog two very nice videos about the Drake A-line.   As long-standing fanatical fan of the Drake 2-B, I was stru...
Saturday, April 24, 2021

It's an INVESTMENT!

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  Exactly what we've been saying about Drake 2-Bs and copies of SSDRA!  
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

1962 Ad Describes Origins of the Drake 2-B

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Thursday, October 8, 2020

HA-600A Gets a New Coat of Paint -- After Almost 50 years!

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  The HA-600A that I picked up last week was looking kind of sorry.  There was a lot of rust on the cabinet.  Below is the before picture.  ...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Wisdom from AA0ZZ: NO LIBRARIES! ASSEMBLER CODE ONLY! -- "Digital Crap" -- "No Magic Fruit" What qualifies as a real rig? Si570 vs. Si5351

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  Bill, Why do you guys make your Soldersmoke podcasts so darn intriguing such that I can’t listen to them in the background while I’m doing...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2020

WU2D's TR-3 -- Mike Refurbishes a Nice Old Drake Transceiver (PART 1) (Video)

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There is a lot of Tribal Knowledge in this video.  And good discussion of the many moral issues faced by those of us who work on old gear....
Friday, July 31, 2020

D-Lab Re-Caps a Drake 2-B (Very Economically)

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A bit ugly, but it gets you there!   I like it.  Thanks to John KE5ETX for alerting us to this video. 
Thursday, June 4, 2020

No Main-Tuning Reduction Drives in Stock Drake 2-Bs -- But why no mod articles?

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Alan Wolke W2AEW and I were recently discussing our Drake 2-Bs (again!). Both of our receivers have reduction drives between the main t...
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Saturday, May 23, 2020

SolderSmoke Podcast #222 Antennas, Phasing, VFOs, 2-Bs, 6 years of N6QW, MAILBAG

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After 46 years, finally a dial skirt SolderSmoke Podcast #222 is available:   http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke222.mp3 No trav...
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Thursday, May 21, 2020

Replacing Electrolytic Caps in my Drake 2-B (Video)

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Every dark cloud has a silver lining. Here is a very small silver lining for this terrible COVID-19 situation:  I had time to do a proper ...
Saturday, March 7, 2020

N2CQR Novice Rig Roundup Station

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I actually used that Drake 2-B as a novice back in 1973-1974.   The HT-37 came a bit later.  For the Novice Rig Roundup I used the ...
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Monday, March 2, 2020

Novice Rig Round-Up -- March 7- March 15, 2020

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I may go with my Drake 2B and HT-37.  But If I get ambitious (and masochistic) I might try to involve the Hallicrafters S-38E that has ...