Showing posts with label Farhan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Farhan. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

How VU2RM Got Into the Satellites

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  Readers will remember last week's post about the homebrew rivalry between VU2RM and VU2NR. (Note the bio about VU2RM below).  This mor...
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Friday, November 14, 2025

Early SSB in India: Espionage, Stolen Secrets, and Kleptomania

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  Earlier this month I had stumbled across a 1964 QST article entitled "A Sideband Transceiver, VU2 Style."  I forwarded the link ...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

"Rig Here is Homebrew" -- The Joys and Sorrows of Building your own Rigs

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This is kind of a re-run.  I came across it today on YouTube and thought it was pretty good.  So here it is again.    ------------------- De...
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Sunday, June 1, 2025

Ashish N6ASD's Beautiful SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver -- Built in Bangalore -- "This was such a fun project. This was my first direct conversion build, and I learned a lot along the way."

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Ashish N6ASD is a really good guy.  We started watching his projects when he was in San Francisco .  He does a lot of  fundamental radio bui...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

Ted KN4ZXG's FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion receiver: "This project is the greatest gift to homebrewing..."

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There it is, a thing of beauty.  The best part is that Ted built this receiver himself.  That is something that most hams NEVER do.  Ted wri...
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Monday, May 19, 2025

Honorable Mention: Andreas DL1AJG's THREE SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receivers for Biologists

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  Andreas DL1AJG was another of those intrepid hams who,  in the dark of winter 2023 took up the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver Chal...
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Friday, May 9, 2025

Ramakrishnan VU2JXN's FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver: "Extremely thrilled! Hooked!"

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This is a really important Hall of Fame entry for us.  This is our first completed SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver from India (more w...
Sunday, March 16, 2025

Juan LU2VJM's Beautiful Argentine SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver

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I was really pleased to see Juan LU2VJM's rapid completion of the SolderSmoke direct conversion receiver.  But I wasn't really surpr...
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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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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

SolderSmoke Podcast #257 -- Wrap up of the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver Challenge

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SolderSmoke Podcast #257 is available.  Video version:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOoZiHbC4Ag Audio version: https://soldersmoke.com/s...
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Sunday, February 16, 2025

Why Should We Build Analog Gear When the World has Gone Digital?

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Our friend Todd (Vasily) had recently been thinking about this on his excellent Popcorn Electronics blog:  https://qrp-popcorn.blogspot.com/...
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Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Happy New Year from the Dominican Republic! SKN from HI7/N2CQR

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As you guys know, here at SolderSmoke we are all about tradition.  Things like homebrewing, thermatrons,  crystal radios,  April 1, and even...
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