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This is really an amazing project.  Way back in 1967 (that's 55 years ago) John Aggers W5ETT of Ponca City, Oklahoma decided to homebrew...

SolderSmoke Podcast #235 is available for download:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke235.mp3 Travelogue: 6 weeks in the DR for Bill One co...

Armed now with a NanoVNA, I took a look at the passband of the 5 MHz filter in my Barebones Superhet (BBRX)  W4OP built it on a Circuit Boar...

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

Eric Guth 4Z1UG interviewed Homebrew Hero Dale Parfitt W4OP on the QSO Today podcast.   The interview is really great.  Listen here:  h...

Pete Juliano and his colleague Giovanni Manzoni led me this morning to the happy land of Hallicrafters hybrid nostalgia. It all started ...

Ira Flatow of "Science Friday " was recently talking about how best to preserve important bits of the history of mankind's ...

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

This is so great.  I saw pictures of Dale's receiver a few years ago, but somehow missed the video.   I am the proud owner of a W4OP-b...