Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Monday, May 13, 2024

Ragnar LA1UH's Wonderful Museums in Norway

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Here are two more great museum visits by Helge LA6NCA.  In these two he visits Ragnar LA1UH.   Ragnar has a lot of maritime experienc...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Homebrew-to-Homebrew Contact on 17 meters with DL2RMM (Video)

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  Here is short clip of a very cool HB2HB contact on 17 meters.  Thanks Jens!  Check out his QRZ page here:  https://www.qrz.com/db/DL2RMM
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Saturday, November 25, 2023

Some Short-Wave Listener QSL Cards

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Click for a better view I haven't received many, but I always like QSL cards from shortwave listeners.  Someone out there is listening! ...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Building a Crystal Set (Videos)

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Andreas DL1AJG in Germany sent the above video to me.  Andreas is the fellow who ran the course in which his university-level students built...
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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...
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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Monday, June 12, 2023

Germany: Direct Conversion Receiver Success!

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Dear Bill, Please my apologies for my late update on our DCR project. We started with the course in the semester break and once the semester...
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Sunday, June 4, 2023

Can you ID this Receiver? Grayson Finds a Homebrew Receiver in Germany. From the GDR. Circuit? Schematic? Thermatrons?

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  Grayson Evans KJ7UM (the author of  Hollow State Design ) was recently in Germany where he spotted this museum display of a homebrew recei...
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Monday, August 8, 2022

Polyakov (RA3AAE) Direct Conversion Receiver: 40 meter DC RX with VFO at 3.5 - 3.6 MHz (with video)

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I've been reading about Polyakov (or "sub-harmonic") Detectors for a long time:  https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/search/label...
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Friday, August 5, 2022

SolderSmoke Podcast #239: Hex DX, VFO Temp Comp, DC RX, Polyakov!, DX-100, Wireless Set, Farhan's "Daylight Again" HDR rig, MAILBAG

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N2CQR Hex Beam Aimed at Europe SolderSmoke #239 is available for download:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke239.mp3 TRAVELOGUE :   James...
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Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Can a Biologist Fix a Radio?

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  Andreas DL1AJG (who in real life is a professional biologist) sends us this excellent article about how biologists approach problems in li...
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Sunday, May 8, 2022

The JF3HZB Digital VFO Dial in the DJ7OO Direct Conversion Receiver (Who is JF3HZB?)

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Pete was talking about this beautiful Digital VFO dial in the latest podcast.  In response, Klaus sent me an e-mail with links and the video...
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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...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

The Joy of Fixing Broken Things (a really amazing video)

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This amazing 10 minute video captures very well the joy of fixing broken things.  It comes to us through a recommendation from Paul VK3HN in...
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Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Straight Key Night 2021 at SA2CLC in Sweden

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Wow, check out the FB gear of Tommy SA2CLC in Sweden, in use on Straight Key Night 2021.  There is some German WWII gear,  a BC-348,  a home...
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Monday, February 22, 2021

LA6NCA's German Military WWII Receivers, and a Luftwaffe Receiver with FAST QSY

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Discussions of old military radio gear are dominated by talk of U.S. radios.   Yesterday in the comments section of the SWLing Post I found...
Sunday, February 14, 2021

Use Only Telefunken Tubes -- They Are the BEST!

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No translation required.    
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Monday, August 31, 2020

Global Collaboration: The uSDX -- A Multi-Mode QCX

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Bill: There is a new open source, home brew, multi band, multi mode QRP transceiver that grew out of the QRP Labs QCX. Through some ...
Saturday, August 8, 2020

First Amateur Transatlantic SSB Contact W2TGO--DL4PA September 9, 1949

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