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There are a number of good ideas in this video.  We've known for a long time that many expensive mics are really simple, cheap mic capsu...

  James West (r) with Gerhard Sessler (l)  Bell Labs 1976 https://hackaday.com/2021/02/17/james-west-began-40-years-at-bell-labs-with-world-...

Thanks to Rogier PA1ZZ for sending me this really nice video.  

We were in a restaurant last week and this trailer played on a TV that was all the way across the room.  The SP-600 caught my eye.  I once...

Don't be such a microphone appliance operator.  Whip up some of your own electret material and turn it into a mic.  Imagine how the au...

I got a kick out of Paul's message from Alaska -- on my bench I have an almost identical project, including the sink strainer ...

Bill Breshears WC3K (SK) SolderSmoke Podcast #198 is available.  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke198.mp3 29 July 2017 Sig...

I've been experimenting with electret replacements for the D-104 crystal element.   I found this site with a really excellent descript...

I had not seen this  I must say, I am disappointed.  I had visions a circular collection of shiny Rochelle salt crystals.  But look at th...

Sadly, not mine I like the D-104 mic.  I bought one from Astatic shortly before they went under and it has provided good service with ma...

This morning I built a mic/PTT for the BITX 40.   I used the little electret element that Farhan sent with the rig.  The element sits atop...

http://www.cbgazette.com/history_tommoss-turner.html So now I have THREE BITX transceivers on the operating bench.  I've been getti...

Two listeners blessed with good high frequency hearing alerted me to the fact that the latest podcast had some annoying high pitched nois...

Podcast listeners will recall that this year's April 1 edition featured a story about my (supposed) efforts to cure long-standing audio ...

Monday, April 4, 2011 11:27 AM From: "Steve" "s...

We will discuss this in SolderSmoke Podcast 133, but for those of you who are not among the MORE THAN 200 listeners who went to the recipe s...

I really loved the TWiT interview with Bob Heil that I posted yesterday. Today we bring you a truly "must see" video on the Histo...

W8FG alerted me to this interview with Bob Heil on TWiT. I think you guys will enjoy it (especially all of you rockers out there). http://...

Here's a really excellent description of how an electret microphone works, complete with a dissection of the device. http://www.openmu...