Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

CuriousMarc Looks at Phase-Locked Loops (PLL)

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I really like Marc's (AL6JV) videos. It is great fun and very educational to watch him and his team troubleshoot some of the old gear th...
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Friday, October 27, 2023

A NETFLIX Series with Boatanchors and Direction-Finding -- All the Light We Cannot See

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Looks good.  November 2, 2023. 
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Sunday, October 15, 2023

Spy Rigs, Para Sets, Bugs, and Enigma Machines -- Dr. Tom Perera W1TP (video)

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This is a really amazing presentation by Tom Perera W1TP to the Fairlawn (NJ) Amateur Radio Club.  There is so much great info in this prese...
Tuesday, September 26, 2023

F6CRP's FB Homebrew Receiver

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I like F6CRP's homebrew receiver.  I like the way he presents it (block by block) and I like the inclusion of the W7ZOI IF board. The JF...
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Sunday, February 19, 2023

Antoine's Home Lab in Paris

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Another very interestng lab brought to us by CuriousMarc.    
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Dhaka Jack Moves to France

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Jack Welch AI4SV has been an important member of the SolderSmoke community for many years .  I remember fondly our Straight Key Night CW con...
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Saturday, July 2, 2022

A Double Sideband Transmitter from France -- F4IET's "Master Robert"

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The Radio Gods seem to be steering us toward Double Sideband.  A few days ago I got an e-mail from Alain F4IET.   We had him on the SolderSm...
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Saturday, December 25, 2021

A Nice Christmas Gift Out of French Guiana -- The Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope

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  A nice Christmas present from NASA and ESA on the screen early on Christmas morning.   Track Webb Telescope's progress here:  https://...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Video: E. Howard Armstrong and Early Radio

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This is a really wonderful video. It might seem slow to those accustomed to faster-paced YouTube videos, but the information content is very...
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Monday, May 24, 2021

Parasets, Parachutes, and Tubes in "A French Village" Season 3

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_village_fran%C3%A7ais In season 3, Episodes 7 and 8, resistance members parachute in from London.  They are...
Saturday, January 9, 2021

A Parachute that Flies Home Autonomously

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  Too often ham radio bloggers and podcasters tend to focus their efforts on the projects of, well, older guys like us.  I think it is a g...
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Sunday, September 6, 2020

Marc Verdiell Has The Knack

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Here is Marc Verdiell, the "Curious Marc" who repaired the Soyuz Clock (shown in yesterday's blog post).   Really cool.  M...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

A Backyard Pandemic Field Day in France (Smoke Released!)

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Thank you Alain!  ------------- Hello Pete and Bill, As you know I am a great fan of your blogs. The fields days are not...
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Sunday, May 26, 2019

DIY Waterfall -- A Quick and Easy Panadaptor Using a Sig Gen and O'scope (video)

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I've been getting waterfall envy.  The panoramic frequency display is the one thing that could lure me to the dark side (SDR).   He...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2019

"Want one!" F6DMQ's Remote Rig

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I talked to Yves F6DMQ last night on 20 meters.  I was on my all-analog BITX20.   Yves was up in Toulouse, operating his station near C...
Tuesday, January 1, 2019

HNY (Happy New Year), SKN (Straight Key Night) 2019, and an HT-37 with "presence" -- even on CW

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I got the HT-37 working just a few days before the New Year's Eve/New Year's Day Straight Key Night event.  Looking at my older b...
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Sunday, May 20, 2018

F5LVG's Nail Board Receiver -- Names for the Technique

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Pete WB9FLW reminds us that Olivier F5LVG has LONG been using copper nails and wood boards to build amazing rigs.  See above for one magn...
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Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Understanding Switching Mixers (as in the Ceramic DC RX)

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W3JDR's Comment on my post about the DC RX mixer got me thinking.   He was right -- my explanation of the mixer action wasn't quite...
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F5LVG's Glue-Built Mixer Transformer

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One thing I forgot to mention:  In Olivier F5LVG's DC receiver article back in SPRAT 100, he casually mentioned building a transf...
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Saturday, November 11, 2017

Amazing Homebrew/Boatanchors QSOs on 40 --Six solder melters in a row!

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Al W8VR After a day of happy tinkering with the Direct Conversion receiver I've been working on, I turned off the soldering iron an...
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