Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Homebrew Radio from Southern India

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I came across this channel yesterday -- there is a lot of FB homebrew content here.  And it is partially in the Malayalam language of Kerala...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

California Typewriter -- Full Movie with Tom Hanks

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I think this one is a bit over the top.  They are way too interested in the old typewirters.  The artist who destroys the old machines to ma...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

How VU2RM Got Into the Satellites

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  Readers will remember last week's post about the homebrew rivalry between VU2RM and VU2NR. (Note the bio about VU2RM below).  This mor...
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Friday, November 14, 2025

Early SSB in India: Espionage, Stolen Secrets, and Kleptomania

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  Earlier this month I had stumbled across a 1964 QST article entitled "A Sideband Transceiver, VU2 Style."  I forwarded the link ...
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Monday, November 10, 2025

Puneit Singh VU2TUM's FB Homebrew 40 meter SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver

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It was really good to see Puneit Singh finish this receiver project.  He overcame many difficulties, including a lot of travel and an acute ...
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Sunday, June 1, 2025

Ashish N6ASD's Beautiful SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver -- Built in Bangalore -- "This was such a fun project. This was my first direct conversion build, and I learned a lot along the way."

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Ashish N6ASD is a really good guy.  We started watching his projects when he was in San Francisco .  He does a lot of  fundamental radio bui...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

SolderSmoke Podcast #260 FDIM, Hollow State Design, Pete's Bench and the Shelf of Shame, Direct Conversion Project News, How Best to Preserve this Blog?, Dean's Bench and the Desk of Despair, Bill's Bench and the Garage of Grief, MAILBAG

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SolderSmoke Podcast #260 is available:  Audio version:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke260.mp3 Video version:  https://www.youtube.com/w...
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Friday, May 9, 2025

Ramakrishnan VU2JXN's FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver: "Extremely thrilled! Hooked!"

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This is a really important Hall of Fame entry for us.  This is our first completed SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver from India (more w...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity --- Wonderful Video by Jim Al-Khalili (sent to us by Ashish N6ASD)

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From Ashish N6ASD -- Oil Lamps and Electronics Here is the link to the video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtp51eZkwoI First, thanks to ...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Field Day with Farhan, his Family and an sBITX Near Hyderabad, India

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Farhan and his son Rayyan with an sBITX The SolderSmoke crew thought it had a tough time this Field Day:  Pete N6QW had hoped to do somethin...
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Thursday, March 7, 2024

The Wizard of Schenectady -- Charles Proteus Steinmetz

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Such a beautiful article.   Ramakrishnan VU2JXN sent it to me.  It reminded me of how puzzeled we were when we found "Schenectady"...
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Tuesday, January 2, 2024

Long-time SolderSmoke supporter Ramakrishnan VU2JXN Interviewed on QSO Today

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  https://www.qsotoday.com/podcasts/vu2jxn I think we got our first e-mail from Ramakrishnan way back in 2006.  At the time he was VU3RDD. O...
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, December 14, 2023

Mythbuster Video for the Lamakaan Amateur Radio Club of Hyderabad, India

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I was really pleased when Farhan asked me to speak at this year's Lamakaan Amateur Radio Club convention.  He asked me to talk about my ...
Saturday, December 2, 2023

"My Radio My Life" A Film about Radio Enthusiasts

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My Radio My Life | Trailer | 4K from Makarand Waikar on Vimeo . Wow!  VU2DTR is presenting a film about radio made by her mom VU2RBI.  Th...
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Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Sunburst and Luminary: Apollo "Rope" Memory, and other items of interest

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  Wow.  That is the method that they stored computer memory for the moon missions.  When they were satisfied with a program they would say i...
Friday, September 15, 2023

HB2HB -- A Contact with Denny VU2DGR (video)

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At first I didn't realize it was Denny .  On September 11, 2023 at about 2330Z I had walked back into the shack after dinner.  I think D...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

The Wizard of Kerala (India) -- Denny VU2DGR -- SDR and HDR

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  His signal was just booming in on 20 meter SSB yesterday evening.  It was one of the strongest signals I've heard from India.  I wasn...
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