Showing posts with label Norway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norway. Show all posts
Monday, May 13, 2024

Ragnar LA1UH's Wonderful Museums in Norway

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Here are two more great museum visits by Helge LA6NCA.  In these two he visits Ragnar LA1UH.   Ragnar has a lot of maritime experienc...
Saturday, May 11, 2024

Jens OZ1GEO's AMAZING Radio Museum

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Brace yourselves.  This is just too much, too much radio history, too much cool stuff.  We are into ham radio sensory overload territory h...
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Helge SM/LA6NCA Activates Colorburst Liberation Army in Sweden!

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FB Helge.   This is really cool.  I didn't realize until I saw the schematic at the end that he was on 3579 kHz -- that is the old color...
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Sunday, April 23, 2023

Helge LA6NCA's Altoids Tin Receiver

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Here's another great video from Helge LA6NCA.  This is a follow-up to his Altoids Spy Transmitter project.   Really well done.   Hack-A-...
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Thursday, April 6, 2023

Helge LA6NCA Builds a Double Sideband Thermatron Transmitter

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Helge is an amazing homebrewer. Check out the shack.  Note the R-390 and the Tek  'scope.  Watch how Helge designs his rig.  Watch him c...
Monday, August 8, 2022

Polyakov (RA3AAE) Direct Conversion Receiver: 40 meter DC RX with VFO at 3.5 - 3.6 MHz (with video)

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I've been reading about Polyakov (or "sub-harmonic") Detectors for a long time:  https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/search/label...
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Monday, February 28, 2022

LA6NCA Designs and Builds a Very Hybrid 80 Meter Transmitter (Si5351 and a 12A6 Tube) (Video)

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Helge LA6NCA put out a really nice video explaining how he designed and built an 80 meter transmitter.  I like how he put the Si5351 and the...
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Monday, February 22, 2021

LA6NCA's German Military WWII Receivers, and a Luftwaffe Receiver with FAST QSY

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Discussions of old military radio gear are dominated by talk of U.S. radios.   Yesterday in the comments section of the SWLing Post I found...
Friday, August 14, 2020

Tor LB4RG Builds an IRF-510 Amplifier

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Click on the link to check out Tor's very FB and artistic video about his homebrew IRF-510 amplifier.  Very Nice.   Also, check out...
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Sunday, February 25, 2018

Soldering Fingers (and SWR Bridges) in Norway

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Tore Bonderudtåjet LB4RG tells us that he is a SolderSmoke listener, and that the old tradition of hams soldering their fingers together...
Sunday, October 11, 2015

The Amazing History of the Gibson Girl Rescue Radio

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  A video about the Kon-Tiki expedition got us wondering about how you could generate hydrogen gas for an antenna balloon while on a ra...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

Kon-Tiki and the Gibson Girl

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Back in July we shared a very nice video sent to us by Rupert G6HVY on the radios used by the Kon-Tiki expedition.  Many of us had que...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Ham Radio on the Kon-Tiki

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Hi Bill Just found a short Youtube QRP video which is quite fun. It's of the radio side of  Thor Heyerdahl's cross-Pacific Kon-T...
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Monday, April 20, 2015

Progress! Si5351 VFO/BFO Working

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  I got the Si5351 portion of the new rig going today.  I used an Arduino program from Thomas LA3PNA.  It is relatively barebones, with...
Saturday, April 5, 2014

Parachutist's Helmet-Camera Images Falling Meteorite

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Just because it is pretty cool.  Also, we like parachutes, meteorites, and Norway. Our book: "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in ...
Sunday, August 18, 2013

A COOL Norwegian "S" Meter (video)

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Immaterials: Light painting WiFi from Timo on Vimeo . Our book: "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" h...
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Saturday, December 17, 2011

"The Little Sweetheart" Receiver

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Wow, what a beautiful piece of work! And a fascinating story behind it, with hints of wartime romance... Thanks to Mike AA1TJ whose very ec...
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