Showing posts with label Hayward--Wes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hayward--Wes. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Farhan Talks LARCSet (CW & SSB) at FDIM (with a Lot of Homebrew Wisdom)

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Watch the presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MefojjQ84YY Farhan made it to FDIM 2026  (he must hold the "distance trave...
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Sunday, May 17, 2026

Rick N3FJZ on the Red Summit Podcast with Charlie NJ7V

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  Check it out!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUQA2uNskEs I liked Rick's story about his early days in radio electronics.  Taking old...
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Thursday, May 7, 2026

WA4CHQ -- A Virginian QRPer and Homebrewer

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     This guy had a Drake 2-B,  Heathkit DX-35 with VF-1, and an FT-101EE.   He builds homebrew rigs.  He sailed from England to Virginia on...
Monday, February 23, 2026

SolderSmoke Podcast 263: DR-PR, UM, DCRX, SKN, Design, PSSST, W7ZOI, FT-101, HW32A, VK, HST, AMP, MAILBAG

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Pete Juliano N6QW February 23, 2026 SolderSmoke Podcast #263 is available for download:  Audio:   http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke263.mp3 ...
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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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Friday, May 30, 2025

Hiss, Filters, QRM, and Hearing Loss: Do we need AF filters in direct conversion receivers?

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L6 is the 88mH toroid Messages on Discord about the need to knock down higher frequency audio response in the SolderSmoke direct conversion ...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Simplicity, Presence, Mods, and Direct Conversion Receivers

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Over on the Discord server that we set up for the SolderSmoke Challenge project.  One of the guys who succeeded in building the receiver (ku...
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, March 7, 2025

Homebrew Challenges Much Like Ours: The Direct Conversion Receiver of Wes Hayward W7ZOI and Dick Bingham W7WKR -- QST November 1968

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  https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-DX/QST/60s/QST-1968-11.pdf I was thinking about some of the challenges faced by the builders of ...
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Monday, February 17, 2025

Direct Conversion Receivers -- Some Amateur Radio History

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Click on each of the 6 pages below for a clearer view, or on the N5DUX  link at the bottom for a .pdf https://www.n5dux.com/ham/files/pdf/Di...
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Thursday, January 30, 2025

Diode Ring VFO Part II: How Much LO into a Diode Ring?

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Last week we were trying to determine how much LO injection we really need in the SolderSmoke Direct-Conversion receiver .  The answer seeme...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

So Many Great Pictures, So Much Radio History

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  I make it a point to go back to Wes W7ZOI's web site every once in a while.  That is always a good idea. This time I found myself look...
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Sunday, December 1, 2024

A 40 Meter Direct Conversion Receiver from M0NTV -- With some SolderSmoke Comments

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Nick's video appears above.  First, let me say FB Nick.   It is nice to see you making use of the AGC amp designed by Wes and Bob,  usin...
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Monday, September 23, 2024

Ham Radio -- How To Build Stable Oscillators

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Spasibo Vasily!   Wow, thanks a lot Todd.   There is some great wisdom in your video.  You clearly demonstrate that it is possible to build ...
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Sunday, July 7, 2024

Will KI4POV on QSO Today with Eric 4Z1UG

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I really liked Eric's interview with Will KI4POV:   https://www.qsotoday.com/podcasts/KI4POV Will has appeared on this blog and podcast ...
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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

KE5HPY Builds a QRP Transmitter

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  FB Chuck, very cool.  Please send us more reports on this rig.   Chuck has been on the blog many times, with many projects:  https://solde...
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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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