Showing posts with label ET-2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ET-2. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

The Awesome Homebrew of Will KI4POV

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  Will's homebrew station is really something.  The rig (it truly qualifies for this term of praise) is amazing all by itself  (see belo...
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Friday, December 10, 2021

The Lamakaan Annual Radio Convention Starts Today!

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  The Lamakaan Amateur Radio Club's annual convention begins today in Hyderabad, India.  This is Farhan's club so it is sure to be a...
Sunday, December 15, 2019

Hangin' it up (the ET-2)

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My ET-2 minimalist QRP CW adventure is (for now) officially over.   I have taken the rig - festooned with the callsigns of all the stati...
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Friday, December 13, 2019

Crystals -- Old and New and World War Two

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I was watching Greg Charvat's great video about the WWII ARC-5 receiver yesterday. Greg admonished all of us to preserve any WWII ...
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Friday, December 6, 2019

My QRPp Signal Arrived in Utah -- 100 mW, 1950 miles, 26 db Above the Noise!

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So yesterday morning I was calling CQ on 40 meters with my ET2 two-transistor 100 mW rig.  Later, I took a look at the Reverse Beacon N...
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

ET-2 Contact #18 W4FOA -- RANDOM, UNSCHEDULED, AND NOT SPOTTED (Video)

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On December 1, 2019,  my 100 milliwatt signal flew more than 500 miles to reach Tony W4FOA in Chickamauga, Georgia. And -- icing on the ca...
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Sunday, December 1, 2019

ET-2 Contact #16 -- Pete, KD2OMV, Builder of a 6T9er (with video)

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Yesterday I had my  first contact using the ET-2's improved receiver.  I had watched the video of N0WVA's receiver and I realized ...
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Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Contact #10 with the ET-2 -- Perry K9NZ

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Perry K9NZ was contact #10 with my ET-2 QRPp rig.   I found the above on his QRZ page.  Beautiful sentiments.  Most of us have s...
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Saturday, November 2, 2019

SolderSmoke Podcast #214 is FINALLY out!

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WE ARE WORKING TO IMPROVE THE AUDIO QUALITY.  IN THE FIRST RELEASE OF THIS PODCAST SOME OF THE AUDIO WAS KIND OF MUFFLED.  I TRIED TO...
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Friday, October 25, 2019

Minimalist Masochism at Solar Minima -- But More Contacts with the ET-2

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Dylan Thoams   "Rage, rage against the dying of the light"  I thought of that line from Dylan Thomas's poem when I read...
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Monday, October 21, 2019

Farhan Visits Northern Virginia and SolderSmoke HQ

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  Our good friend Farhan came to Northern Virginia last week for the 50th Anniversary Symposium of AMSAT.   We were really delighted that...
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Saturday, October 19, 2019

QSO #3 with the ET-2 Minimalist Transceiver

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  The Radio Gods were clearly supporting me on 16 October 2019.  I had sent out a plea for people to listen for the 80 mW CQ from my ET-2...
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Sunday, October 13, 2019

More on the ET-2 : Better Pictures and More Circuit Description. Some Thoughts on Simplicity

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  So yesterday I made my first contact using my ET-2 rig.   Last night I got an e-mail from Gary, the fellow at the other end of that c...
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Saturday, October 12, 2019

Success with my ET-2 --TWO TRANSISTOR RIG

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  In my effort to replicate the ET-1 rig of Glen Yingling W2UW, I had a hard time getting the receiver to work well with the single FE...
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