Showing posts with label Rainey -- Michael. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rainey -- Michael. Show all posts
Thursday, November 30, 2023

AA9IL's Sputnik Tube, Altoids Tin Transmitter

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November 24, 2023 Hello Bill I have just built an tested a 20 meter “Sputnik” transmitter. It uses two Soviet era “rod” tubes and is fixed t...
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Sunday, July 30, 2023

Understanding Maxwell's Equations (video)

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And you should also look at the accompanying web site:  https://www.maxwells-equations.com/m/index.php#maxwells Writing about the equations,...
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Sunday, July 16, 2023

The Super Islander Mark IV -- A Cuban DSB Transceiver Made From CFL Lightbulb Parts

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Trevor Woods also sent us this report from Arnie Coro.  It is not clear to me what difference (if any) there is between the Super Islander M...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Building a Workshop (or a Shack) in a Crawl Space

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At first, this video made me think of Michael AA1TJ and his underground Hobbit Hole workshop .  Then I started thinking about my own crawlsp...
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Monday, December 27, 2021

A Christmas Story: Mike AA1TJ Builds Receiver for 486 kHz, Listens to Fessenden Commemoration (Audio)

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Mike's 486 kHz receiver As if being able to get home on Christmas Eve 2021 and then catching the Webb Telescope launch was not enough, S...
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Monday, November 25, 2019

SolderSmoke Podcast #215 Regen Madness, KWM-4, Paesano, Mailbag

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Latest N2CQR version of N0WVA's Regen SolderSmoke Podcast #215 is available.  25 November 2019 http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmok...
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Saturday, October 19, 2019

QSO #3 with the ET-2 Minimalist Transceiver

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  The Radio Gods were clearly supporting me on 16 October 2019.  I had sent out a plea for people to listen for the 80 mW CQ from my ET-2...
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Friday, June 21, 2019

Wall Warts

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Thank you to Michael Rainey AA1TJ who posted this cartoon, which I'm sure speaks to us all. 
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Saturday, March 24, 2018

SolderSmoke Podcast #203 Winter, Transceivers, Antennas, DC RX, uBITX, Mixers, 'fests, MAILBAG

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N6QW in 1959. Building an SSB transceiver SolderSmoke Pocast #203 is (FINALLY!) available:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke203.mp3 ...
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Sunday, January 21, 2018

Mike Rainey and Heavy Metal AM Phone

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Michael Rainey AA1TJ wrote:   I can tell you exactly what's going on here. I'd just received a license upgrade from "Novic...
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Saturday, January 6, 2018

Straight Key Night at N2CQR

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I did my part for the retro-Luddite-CW-Straight Key cause.   My HT-37 was kind of wheezing.  I may have to go in there to striaghten it ...
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Sunday, September 3, 2017

Nuclear Powered QRPp? Tritium Nuclear Batteries and Plutonium Pacemakers

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OK QRPers, it is time to explore another power source.  Enough of the nails in lemons and all that mess.  It is time to go NUCLEAR! Check...
Monday, January 2, 2017

Straight Key Night -- Bandscan from WA6ARA (audio)

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WA6ARA SKN Station Mike Herr WA6ARA was on 40 meters with old gear this Straight Key Night.   Mike was receiving with a venerable Heat...
Sunday, November 6, 2016

SolderSmoke Podcast #191 RIGS! REAL RIGS!, BITX40 Module, EMRFD, MAILBAG

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SolderSmoke Podcast #191 is available: http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke191.mp3 TRAVELOGUE AND FAMILY DOINGS:   Pete son's wedd...
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Sunday, September 4, 2016

First Signals from the "Armand HROish" Receiver

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I've been kind of busy lately with other things, but I have managed to squeeze in a few minutes most days to work on my latest rec...
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Saturday, July 16, 2016

Preserving Vanguard 1

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Ira Flatow of "Science Friday " was recently talking about how best to preserve important bits of the history of mankind's ...
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Saturday, March 5, 2016

AA1TJ -- On the Air with a Tuning Fork Transmitter using the 2,212th Harmonic and Olive Oil Cooling

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The saturable magnetic frequency septupler. The tiny computer memory core is submerged in olive oil (Italian...naturalmente). Not ...
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Saturday, February 27, 2016

Sputnik Replica Transmitter, an "Error" in the Sputnik Schematic, and Why 20.005 MHz?

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Mark K6HX pointed me to very interesting Hackaday article on Frank PA3CNO's Sputnik transmitter replica.  As blog readers will rec...
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Sunday, February 14, 2016

"QSO Today" Podcast Interview with Michael Rainey AA1TJ

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Eric 4Z1UG has a really great interview with Michael AA1TJ: http://www.qsotoday.com/podcasts/aa1tj I listened to it as I aligne...
Saturday, February 6, 2016

Michael's Log: AA1TJ Has FIVE Contacts with the Unijunction Transistor at 1-2 milliwatts

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Michael writes: Dear Friends, The UJT transmitter circuit was improved considerably today. The power output has increased to 1.48mW and ...
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