Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

SolderSmoke Podcast 266: TROUBLESHOOTING! Test Gear, LA6NCA, ZIA Rig, Australia, Nuvistors, 75 AM, MAILBAG

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SolderSmoke Podcast # 266 is available.  Video version:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hbLmsFxzx4 Audio version:  http://soldersmoke.com/...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Chappy Happy Builds a 25 meter Direct Conversion Receiver using a PAL VFO -- And There Is Distortion of AM SW Broadcast

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First, it is a good day when I find a new Chappy Happy project on YouTube.  Thank you Chappy Happy! You make us happy!  Second, even before ...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Hidehiko JA9MAT's Self-Quenching Super-Regenerative Receiver from Japan -- AI Gets It Wrong!

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Updated image to show quenching Hidehiko reports that in Japan, this is called a "Self Quenching Circuit" and that it is popular w...
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Saturday, July 25, 2026

Someone Else Used the FT-101 VFO Box -- JA9MAT in Japan

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Look at that!   The VFO from the venerable (1970s!) Yaesu FT-101 lives on, not only in Northern Virginia, but also in its country of origin,...
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Thursday, July 23, 2026

A Homebrew Receiver from Hidehiko JA9MAT

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We recently complained that no SolderSmoke Direct Conversion receivers have been built in Japan.  So far, no Japanese SS DC Receivers have b...
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Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Shuji Nakamura -- Inventor of Blue LEDs -- Takes on Fusion Energy at Age 72

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This blog covered Shuji Nakamura at least twice before -- we reported on on how he had invented the blue LED:  https://soldersmoke.blogspot....
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Sunday, July 5, 2026

An Interesting Receiver from North Macedonia

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https://hackaday.com/2026/07/02/diy-si5351-radio-tunes-in-sw-mw-and-more/ There are some really cool features in this receiver:  There is an...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Coil-Making in Japan -- Manual and Automatic

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  I found this video sort of soothing.  I liked the manual process, but the automatic process is amazing too.  Thanks to Rogier PA1ZZ for se...
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Friday, November 22, 2024

Tezukuri and Chappy Happy -- Amazing Videos on Homebrew Radio (from Japan?) - Another 40 Meter Direct Conversion Receiver

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So around the time we were building 40 meter direct conversion receivers, someone else was doing something similar.  His product (above) is ...
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Saturday, September 7, 2024

Sony and the Transistor

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pi9k5n7Wrw I found the comment about Sony's belief that NPN transistors are superior to PNP very in...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Amazing Homebrew from Japan -- 7L4WVU's All Homebrew Station

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Thanks to Roy WN3F for alerting me to this.  Tadashi-san has really built some beautiful stuff.  Especially impressive to me is his use of t...
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