Showing posts with label Farhan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Farhan. Show all posts
Thursday, November 14, 2024

FDIM 2024 Interview with Farhan VU2ESE

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Thanks to Bob Crane W8SX we have some great interviews with those who made presentations at the Four Days in May event (FDIM 2024).  Sorry f...
Friday, November 8, 2024

Video Update on the Mythbuster II 20 meter SSB Transceiver

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I have added the transmit circuitry. I described building practices. We listen to the receiver again. I talk about plans for transmit/rec...
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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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Monday, October 14, 2024

Monitoring Maritime Radio Messages with YADD

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  Click on the image for a clearer view This is really cool and very easy.  Easy nerd thrills.   On Friday, Steve VE7SL, put up a blog post...
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Monday, September 30, 2024

Homebrew Receiver -- AG5VG's 20 Meter "Mythbuster" Receiver

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Michael has the receiver done and is wisely heeding Farhan's advice about pausing to enjoy the homebrew sounds.   I was pleased to see s...
Thursday, September 26, 2024

AI Podcast #2: Here is Another Short Podcast ABOUT SolderSmoke.

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Click here for the second "A bout SolderSmoke" podcast.   http://www.soldersmoke.com/About SolderSmoke 2.mp3 This one looks not at...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2024

A Paraset and the Heathkit SG-6 Signal Generator (Video)

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Mike WU2D put out this nice video (above) about whether or not he should part out his Heath SG-6 signal generator, using the parts in a Para...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Field Day with Farhan, his Family and an sBITX Near Hyderabad, India

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Farhan and his son Rayyan with an sBITX The SolderSmoke crew thought it had a tough time this Field Day:  Pete N6QW had hoped to do somethin...
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Saturday, June 1, 2024

Farhan Talks Radio Tech at SolderSmoke HQ (EAST) (TWO VIDEOS!)

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Great stuff!  We were really fortunate to have Farhan and Humera visit the SolderSmoke East shack after Dayton and FDIM.  Dean and I had a c...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Old Tricks, Lore, and Art -- Freezing and Baking our LC VFOs -- An Example from Cuba

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Pavel CO7WT explained why Cuban hams used a process of thermal endurance to improved the frequency stability of their homebrew rigs:    ----...
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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

A Contact with my Old Azorean DSB Transceiver

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I've been thinking about balanced modulators, and I wanted to see how some of my early circuits performed.  So I pulled this OLD Double ...
Sunday, February 25, 2024

Innovation and a Dual Band Sweep with Version 2 of the 15-10 Transceiver

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Here are a couple of videos on Version 2 of my 15-10 SSB transceiver.  In the video above I try to show the advances and innovations that ha...
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Monday, February 12, 2024

Dean's Amazing Homebrew sBITX

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  I was kind of making fun of  it during SolderSmoke podcast #250 , but later that same morning I had a chance to watch the KK4DAS homebrew ...
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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Pine Boards, Analog VFOs, and Homebrew BITX Transceivers -- AG5VG's Magnificent Creations

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Click in image for a better view This is amazingly cool.  WE ARE NOT ALONE!  There are others out there breaking the tyranny of the Si5351, ...
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Sunday, February 4, 2024

Scott KQ4AOP Successfully BUILDS a Receiver (Video) -- This is the Homebrew Spirit at its Maximum

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This is just so cool.  Scott KQ4AOP has successfully homebrewed a ham radio receiver.  He used the circuit Dean and I developed (with a lot ...
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Friday, February 2, 2024

First Light! First Signals received on Version II of Homebrew 15-10 Transceiver

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Ianis S51DX in Slovenia was the first call sign heard. Some peaking and tweaking remains to be done, but the receiver is working. Congra...
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Friday, December 15, 2023

Check out the Hyderabad, India Hamfest! LARC-6

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This all looks very familiar.  It is very much like the hamfests and rallies I've seen in the US and UK.  Note in the video above that w...
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Thursday, December 14, 2023

Mythbuster Video for the Lamakaan Amateur Radio Club of Hyderabad, India

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I was really pleased when Farhan asked me to speak at this year's Lamakaan Amateur Radio Club convention.  He asked me to talk about my ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Sunburst and Luminary: Apollo "Rope" Memory, and other items of interest

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  Wow.  That is the method that they stored computer memory for the moon missions.  When they were satisfied with a program they would say i...
Friday, June 30, 2023

SolderSmoke Podcast #247 -- Hating on the IC-7300, Pete Goes FT-8 with a KWM-1, Bill's 15-10 Rig, MAILBAG

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Bill's 15-10 Rig -- Click on image  SolderSmoke Podcast #247 is available:  Audio Podcast:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke247.mp3 Vi...
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