Showing posts with label Knack Stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Knack Stories. Show all posts
Thursday, February 15, 2024

More Inspiring Mail! Another "First Ever Receiver was Homebrew"

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Frank's Lowfer Beacon Receiver It was great to hear from someone else who, like Scott KQ4AOP, heard his very first signals on a homebrew...
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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...
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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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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Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Bill's Fortune Cookie

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 TRGHS (The Radio Gods Have Spoken)
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Mr. Carlson's ART-13 Transmitter (with Dynamotor)

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Here we have a really cool video from Mr. Carlson.  In it he reveals (admits!) to what we already know:  HE IS A HAM RADIO OPERATOR.  FB Mr....
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Thursday, October 5, 2023

A Cuban Knack Story, and a Pandemic (SITS!) SSB version of the DSB Jaguey Rig -- Viva el Cacharreo!

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  First, the Knack Story.  Andy CO2AFV clearly has The Dilbert Disease:  Hello my name is Andy. I had an interest in Ham radio before knowin...
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Monday, October 2, 2023

"Sunburst and Luminary" author Don Eyles was a Ham, a Hacker, and a user of Plywood who Understood Juju

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-- As a kid, Eyles took a summertime shop class with W4LRO.  Eyles himself went on to get his ham license -- he was K4ZHF and was active for...
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Sunday, September 24, 2023

The Art of Electronics #7 -- Paul Horowitz on Ham Radio, and on SETI (audio)

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Radio Contact · “We didn’t find anything, so the search goes on” Above is a seven minute audio podcast in which Paul Horowitz talks about h...
Saturday, August 19, 2023

Valveman -- The Story of Gerald Wells

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Don't be deterred by the annoying test patterns at the start of this video.  Just skip past them.  The rest of the video is quite good. ...
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Monday, December 26, 2022

A Blast from the Past: TR on Homebrewing (sort of)

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  "It is not the critic who counts; not the ham who points out how the homebrewer stumbles, or where the builder of rigs could have bui...
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Saturday, July 2, 2022

A Double Sideband Transmitter from France -- F4IET's "Master Robert"

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The Radio Gods seem to be steering us toward Double Sideband.  A few days ago I got an e-mail from Alain F4IET.   We had him on the SolderSm...
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Friday, May 27, 2022

"Hobby High" from the Lamarkaan Radio Club and The Hindu magazine

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  https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/hobby-high/article65375392.ece?fbclid=IwAR01JGwweZuJEH1Pg15rREybZqfqKUjU3ZLbGn-xhOYZVlFPs7yN_Fb...
Friday, May 20, 2022

500 WYKSYCDS IBEW Stickers Arrive in Europe! Order yours today! Free!

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Lex PH2LB in the Netherlands has gone the extra kilometer for the IBEW.  When he saw the stickers that had been placed in New York City, he ...
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Sunday, May 15, 2022

"Dream It - Make It" -- Rich WB4TLM, Mrs. Filoramo, and C.F. Rockey W9SCH (aka The Rock)

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  Rich WB4TLM spotted my bog posts about famed QRPer C.F. Rockey  W9SCH.  He followed up by sending me a link to the WB4TLM blog.   It is a ...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

Back to the 1970's! Homebrew Keyboards! Don Lancaster's TV Typewriter

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Even though it is outside my normal analog comfort zone, I really liked this video.  Farhan sent it to me, along with this note:  ----------...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Young Jean Shepherd Gets Hung-Up On Ham Radio

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Oh man, we've all been there:  OBSESSION with ham radio.  Shep went over the top and didn't sleep all weekend when his homebrew tran...
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Thursday, April 14, 2022

W9YEI's Homebrew 1939 TV?

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  I've been thinking about Jean Shepherd's 1973 description of the homebrew TV receiver built by his friend Johnny Anderson W9YEI in...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

John Stanley Anderson W9YEI -- Shep's Friend Who Homebrewed a TV Receiver in 1938

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  John Stanley "Johnny" Anderson -- son of John E. and Beda Klarin Anderson, natives of Sweden -- was born on July 19, 1918, in Ea...
Monday, April 11, 2022

Early Television, Jean Shepherd, Homebrewing, and Hack-A-Day

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It may have been something like this 1947 receiver.  But with a smaller CRT. Hack-A-Day has an article about early (1930s) television.  I w...