Showing posts with label Herring Aid 5. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Herring Aid 5. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 5, 2023

The Beginning of MY Radio Life...

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  Unlike Pete (see below), I don't have any cool pictures of me in front of an early station.   But in the picture above,  there I am, a...
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Friday, November 10, 2023

SolderSmoke Podcast #249 -- Travel, Pete's 6BA6 rig, Books!, VFOs, SDR, Computers, Spectrum Analysers, Transistor Man! MAILBAG

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New VFO for 15-10 Transceiver Schematic below SolderSmoke Podcast #249 is available:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke249.mp3 There is als...
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Monday, October 23, 2023

Bringing a Faulty Herring Aid 5 Receiver Into the Light -- Fixing the AF Amp Schematic Error (video)

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I picked up this old homebrew receiver in March 2023 at the Vienna Wireless Society's Winterfest Hamfest.  It is a Herring Aid 5.   I wa...
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Thursday, October 19, 2023

How a Homebrewer Substituted MPF102s for the RS 2035 FETs in the Herring Aid 5 -- Who built this one? Any others out there?

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The Hamfest Herring Aid 5 For background on all this, see yesterday's blog post:      https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-big-err...
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

A Big Error Discovered in the 1976 QST "Herring Aid 5" Article (After 47 Years)

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Click on image for a better view.  See arrows for Q1, Q5 and the parts list. I tried as a teenager to build the Herring Aid 5 direct convers...
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Monday, February 14, 2022

Podcast (Audio) Version of Bill's Talk to the L'Anse Creuse Amateur Radio Club

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Tony G4WIF suggested that I make this talk available as an audio recording.  Good idea. Here it is:  http://soldersmoke.com/N2CQRHomebrewing...
Friday, February 11, 2022

Bill Talking about Homebrew Radio with L’Anse Creuse Amateur Radio Club (Michigan) -- February 2, 2022 (Video)

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This was a very nice meeting.  We just talked homebrewing and why it is such an important part of  ham radio.  Video above Topics included: ...
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Sunday, February 6, 2022

FLASHBACK: The Herring Aid 5 Direct Conversion Receiver and Frank Jones (Video)

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The Radio Gods seem to be pushing me towards Direct Conversion receivers.  This week I was speaking via Zoom with the very FB L'Anse Cre...
Friday, October 22, 2021

Tribal Knowledge: Pete N6QW on "How to Make Things Work"

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  BUILD IT LIKE THIS Yesterday Pete Juliano published a blog post that contains an enormous amount of tribal knowledge and good advice for ...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021

The SolderSmoke Team Talks to the River City Amateur Radio Communication Society (Video)

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Pete and I had a great time speaking to this really nice California ham radio club (video of the event appears above).  Special thanks to cl...
Sunday, January 17, 2021

STOP. LISTEN. Shep on Building a Shortwave Receiver

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Oh man, how could I have possibly missed this one?  Perhaps I didn't, but even if this one has been on the blog before, it is so good th...
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Thursday, July 25, 2019

Fish Soup 10 QRP Transceiver in Action on 40

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I took this quick video during a QSO on July 20, 2019 with Ed K3VA in Philadelphia on 40 meters.  Note: Plenty of of audio from the Herrin...
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Monday, July 22, 2019

Making Fish Soup from Herring and Tuna (How to Build a Fish Soup 10 Transceiver)

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Just in case some other fanatic someday thinks about trying to turn a Herring Aid 5 and a Tuna Tin 2 into a Fish Soup 10. This will als...
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Saturday, July 20, 2019

A Frequency Readout for the Fish Soup 10 (with cool BLUE numerals)

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Note the cool BLUE numerals.  They represent 7040, 7050, 7060, 7070.  The little black "pointer" is from a power cord wall faste...
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Thursday, July 18, 2019

Video of Fish Soup 10 QSO (from N3MLB)

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So cool.  During our QSO on 40 Meter CW today, N3MLB recorded it and put it on YouTube.  This is what my 500 milliwatt Fish Soup 10 rig so...
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Monday, July 15, 2019

The "Fish Soup 10" Homebrew QRP CW Transceiver

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The box with the two grey knobs on the left is the Herring Aid 5, the receiver that took me 38 years to complete. The box on the right ...
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Sunday, July 7, 2019

The Fish Soup 7 QRP Rig -- On the Air on 40 Meters (video)

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I don't know why, but this weekend I got the urge to get on the air with a very low power homebrew QRP rig.   I reached for my Tuna Ti...
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Thursday, September 21, 2017

Herring Aid Error: C14

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Yea, take a look at C14 in the AF amp.   At 1000 Hz 10uF is about 16 ohms.  That would put a serious dent in the AF gain.  And indeed, wh...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Can You See an Error in the Herring Aid Five Schematics?

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Something caught my eye this morning.  Please take a look at the audio amplifier stages (Q3 and Q4) on the Herring Aid Five.  Can you...
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Saturday, June 24, 2017

Straight Key QRP Homebrew Adventures -- TRGHS

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Last Saturday I put the Tuna Tin Two Top together with my Herring Aid Five 38 (year) Special and the Indian key that Farhan gave me.   I...
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