Showing posts with label Hamfests and Flea Markets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hamfests and Flea Markets. Show all posts
Friday, March 29, 2024

A QRP CW Contact (Video) with the Winterfest MXM SupeRX/TX 40 (1 Watt, Crystal Controlled Transmitter)

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I picked this transceiver up at Winterfest for one dollar. 40 meters. Superhet receiver with 455 kc ceramic filter and 2 NE602s. Crystal ...
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Monday, March 11, 2024

Radio Items Picked-up at VWS Winterfest 2024 Hamfest

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As always, click on image for a better view Above you can see what I picked up at the Vienna Wireless Society's 2024 Winterfest Hamfest....
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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, June 1, 2023

George Heron N2APB talks about Coherent CW at FDIM: Interview #7 by Bob Crane W8SX

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It was great to hear George's voice again.  I was a big fan of his "Chat with the Designers" podcast. And it was great to see ...
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Sunday, May 28, 2023

Greg Latta AA8V on Making Aluminum Chassis -- FDIM Interview by Bob Crane W8SX #2 (audio)

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Our correspondent Bob Crane W8SX caught up with prolific builder Greg Latta AA8V.  Greg gave an FDIM talk on how to make aluminum chassis wi...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

Hans Summers G0UPL and his new QMX: The Bob Crane W8SX FDIM Interviews Part 1 (audio)

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http://qrp-labs.com/qmx.html We are very pleased and grateful to present this year's series of Four Days in May interviews by our FDIM c...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Farhan Visits Northern Virginia En Route to FDIM (Videos to Follow)

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Mike KD4MM, Farhan VU2ESE and Dean KK4DAS Farhan VU2ESE was in Northern Virginia this week, on his way to the Four Days in May Event at the ...
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Monday, March 20, 2023

Winterfest Loot: Who Can ID the Homebrew Receiver?

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First a big congratulations to the Vienna Wireless Society and its President, Dean KK4DAS.  In spite of low temperatures that made the Winte...
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Friday, February 3, 2023

CuriousMarc (AJ6JV) Goes to a Hamfest

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Jean Shepherd once said that all of us at one point come to a cross-roads in our lives -- one road leads to success, the other to ham radio ...
Monday, June 20, 2022

QRP Labs HQ Tour

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Really cool to see Hans describe his QRP Labs workshop in Turkey.  Lots of soul in that worshop.  Thanks Hans.    And here is a 2022 Turkish...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Hans Summers G0UPL Wins FDIM 2N2222A Power Out Challenge -- 4.1 Watts from Two 2N2222As

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Farhan told me how cool this was.  And he was right.  It looks like a lot of fun.  Congratulations Hans!    
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Friday, April 1, 2022

SolderSmoke Podcast #236 -- Bill's 17-12 Rig, Pea Shooter, VFO Wisdom, Temp Compensation, Need Code for Max2870, Making Enclosures, MAILBAG

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ARC-5 R-23 Nav Receiver Parts SolderSmoke Podcast #236 is available! http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke236.mp3 Winterfest!   Many Boatanchor...
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Monday, March 28, 2022

Vienna Wireless Winterfest Hamfest 2022

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After a two-year pandemic hiatus, yesterday the Vienna (Virginia) Wireless Society's annual "Winterfest" hamfest was back.  An...
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Saturday, February 27, 2021

Jean Shepherd Goes to a Hamfest -- And Much More

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Here is something nice to listen to in your shack...   I hadn't heard this one before.  It is about Shep's teenage trip to a hamfest...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Junk Box Ethics -- I Plead Guilty! (video)

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I cringed when, at about the 32 minute mark,  during a discussion of the moral necessity of preserving old gear, Michael appeared on the s...
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Monday, November 4, 2019

Melbourne Australia -- QRP By the Bay 2019

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Each November, Peter Parker VK3YE and his ham colleagues from Melbourne share with us reports on Peter's annual "QRP by the Bay&q...
Friday, June 1, 2018

INTERVIEW: Bob Crane Talks to Jack Purdum W8TEE at FDIM. Definition of "Homebrew."

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Jack Purdum has been making enormous contributions to the radio art.  His background with digital technology has opened many doors fo...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Hans Summers and his QCX -- G0UPL Cracks the Code on Si5351A Quadrature

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Pete,  Brad WA8WDQ and I were recently e-mailing about our admiration for what Hans G0UPL has achieved with his QCX rig.   I cc'd Han...
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Sunday, May 27, 2018

INTERVIEW: Four Days in May 2018 -- G0UPL Hans Summers talks to Bob Crane

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Once again, our correspondent Bob Crane W8SX has gone to the Four Days in May event and has sent back some really great inteviews with ...
Sunday, March 18, 2018

Haunted by Hallicrafters At Winterfest

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I was on the verge of not going to the Vienna Wireless Society's Winterfest Hamfest this year.   We had just returned from a long tri...
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