Showing posts with label Jones -- Frank. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jones -- Frank. Show all posts
Friday, October 18, 2024

Mike WU2D POTA CCC Camp Activation (21 October 2024) with 1930s-era Station -- See If You Can Contact Mike!

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Frank Jones lives!  See if you can work Mike on Monday.  Let us know if you do!  -------------------------------- Bill,   I’m scheduled to t...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Rigs on Vertical Boards -- Then and Now

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  I saw this on Facebook today.  G1AVQ (SK) Rig The G1AVQ rig reminded me of the N3FJZ rig that I worked in 2015: https://soldersmoke.blogsp...
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Saturday, February 17, 2024

Nate KA1MUQ's Amazing Thermatron Receiver

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https://natesbasement123.blogspot.com/2024/02/thank-you-bill-dean-grayson-pete-and.html Wow, some really wonderful work is taking place in N...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Nick's "Shelf-17" Al Fresco Homebrew Transceiver -- Frank Jones Would Approve!

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This is a really wonderful video from Nick M0NTV.   Some reactions:   -- Wow, a real celebration of Al Fresco!  And of the wooden chassis --...
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Thursday, May 19, 2022

Frank Jones's Homebrew Rig -- as described by Michael Hopkins AB5L (SK)

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"Frank is all homebrew. His receiver is unshielded outside, but built around a central square of aluminum that houses a Velvet Vernier ...
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...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Super-Regeneration is Super-Strange

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Farhan VU2ESE is largely responsible for this.  He has recently been talking about VHF.  (More about this in due course.).  This started me ...
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Sunday, July 25, 2021

Possible Victory for Frank Jones and the FMLA? Could We Get the 5 Meter Band Back?

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  EI7GL reports some very interesting IARU activity that could possibly result in the 5 Meter band coming back to amateur radio use:   ...
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Monday, July 19, 2021

Michael Newton Hopkins, AB5L, Author of the FMLA series

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Better than anyone else ever has, Michael Hopkins, in his fictional series about Frank Jones and the Five Meter Liberation Army , captures t...
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Sunday, July 18, 2021

Frank Jones's 1936 Radio Handbook

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  https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Handbooks/Radio-Handbook-4-1936.pdf
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Saturday, July 17, 2021

Mythbuster Video #7: Bandswitch, Reverse Polarity Protection, CW with Clarifier Offset

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I have the speaker mounted on the front of the board. I kind of like it like that. I now have a bandswitch, and reverse polarity protectio...
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Sunday, July 11, 2021

A Video Series on the Mythbuster 75/20 Rig -- Video #1

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I am happy to report great progress on the Mythbuster project.  I have the receiver working on both 75/80 and 20 meters.  And it in fact inv...
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Thursday, July 1, 2021

Summer Reading for Homebrewers: Frank Jones and the FMLA by Michael Hopkins AB5L (SK)

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  Frank Jones W6AJF (SK) I read these stories when they were first coming out and I really liked them.  Here are all the FMLA episodes.  Don...
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Sunday, February 9, 2020

W6IQY's Homebrew SSB Transceiver from the mid-1960s

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Oh wow, it is definitely a thing of beauty.  Bob W9RAN acquired this homebrew gem and put it back on the air.   Bob also wrote a very n...
Saturday, September 2, 2017

SolderSmoke Podcast 199 Eclipse, Regen, BITX, DC RX, 3D OLEDS, Iphone Boxes, Mailbag

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SolderSmoke Podcast #199 is available.  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke199.mp3 2 September 2017 The Eclipse.  The Floods.  Saw...
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Saturday, May 14, 2016

A Lot of Soul in the Barbados Receiver

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After a rather frustrating period working on the Hallicrafters S38-E, I decided to do something different, maybe work on something that...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Has AA1TJ Joined the FMLA?

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I have learned that esteemed homebrewer Michael Rainey, AA1TJ, recently whipped up a 56 MHz, quarter-wave, helical coaxial resonator (B...
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