Showing posts with label Regens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Regens. Show all posts
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Mike WU2D Does a CCC Camp POTA with 1930's Gear

›
FB Mike.  CW without sidetone is not for the faint of heart.   Walter KA4KXX saw Mike on the Reverse Beacon Network.  Mike's QSO with KN...
1 comment:
Friday, October 18, 2024

Mike WU2D POTA CCC Camp Activation (21 October 2024) with 1930s-era Station -- See If You Can Contact Mike!

›
Frank Jones lives!  See if you can work Mike on Monday.  Let us know if you do!  -------------------------------- Bill,   I’m scheduled to t...
2 comments:
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

2014 "Off the Shelf" Regen Comes Off the Shelf (Two Videos)

›
Walter KA4KXX spotted an error in the schematic of my 2014 "Off the Shelf" regen receiver: The source resistor on the MPF-102 sho...
1 comment:
Saturday, February 3, 2024

Armand's Receiver -- A Beautiful Regen from WA1UQO

›
Armand writes: The video above shows a quick pass up 40M. The radio sounds better than the video would have you believe (better than I expe...
2 comments:
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Whole Earth Catalog Part II: More on SWL (and a Hippy One-Tube Receiver)

›
Click on image for a better view Lee McKusick was correct about many things, but of course we were a bit disappointed by his focus on store ...
5 comments:
Sunday, June 4, 2023

Can you ID this Receiver? Grayson Finds a Homebrew Receiver in Germany. From the GDR. Circuit? Schematic? Thermatrons?

›
  Grayson Evans KJ7UM (the author of  Hollow State Design ) was recently in Germany where he spotted this museum display of a homebrew recei...
2 comments:
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Helge LA6NCA's Altoids Tin Receiver

›
Here's another great video from Helge LA6NCA.  This is a follow-up to his Altoids Spy Transmitter project.   Really well done.   Hack-A-...
8 comments:
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

The Awesome Homebrew of Will KI4POV

›
  Will's homebrew station is really something.  The rig (it truly qualifies for this term of praise) is amazing all by itself  (see belo...
10 comments:
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

VK2BLQ's Two-Tube Regen with a SolderSmoke Dial

›
  Thanks to Peter Marks VK3TPM ("a bloke with too many hobbies") for alerting us to this magnificent homebrew receiver with the es...
2 comments:
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Super-Regeneration is Super-Strange

›
Farhan VU2ESE is largely responsible for this.  He has recently been talking about VHF.  (More about this in due course.).  This started me ...
6 comments:
Saturday, September 25, 2021

VE7SL's Beautiful Single Tube Transmitter and Single Tube Regen Receiver

›
Just stunning, in their simplicity and beauty.  Really amazing work.  Kind of reminiscent of my ET-2, but with tubes, and much nicer constru...
2 comments:
Sunday, February 7, 2021

A Really Nice Video about a Regen Receiver

›
Thanks to Stephen Walters for posting the link to this video on the SolderSmoke Facebook page.  I really liked the way this project was desc...
1 comment:
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Guilt Trip: Video on the Heath QF-1 Q Multiplier

›
Hack-A-Day had a nice post about this piece of gear:  https://hackaday.com/2021/01/18/q-multiplier-er-multiplies-q/ My radio emotions were s...
2 comments:
Sunday, January 17, 2021

STOP. LISTEN. Shep on Building a Shortwave Receiver

›
Oh man, how could I have possibly missed this one?  Perhaps I didn't, but even if this one has been on the blog before, it is so good th...
5 comments:
Monday, September 14, 2020

A Regen Receiver Made with Homebrew Tubes

›
Wow, a regen receiver using homebrew triodes.  Makes me feel like such a pathetic appliance operator, what with all my STORE-BOUGHT TUBES......
3 comments:
Saturday, July 25, 2020

ANOTHER 12AU7 REGEN! W3BBO's Quarantine Receiver

›
Hi Bill, I was really impressed with Chuck KE5HPY’s 12AU7 Quarantine Regen!  A very nice build and my hat is off to him!  It caught...
3 comments:
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

KE5HPY's 12AU7 Quarantine Regen -- FB!

›
B ill and Pete: Thanks for upping the frequency of your podcasts.  Each one is a welcome note to break-up the COVID monotony. F...
1 comment:
Saturday, June 13, 2020

Jerry's Sproutie: A Short Wave Receiver (and a Limerick) by Jerry KI4IO

›
Jerry KI4IO is a really talented homebrewer;  I've called him the Wizard of Warrenton:   https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2015/07...
1 comment:
Thursday, May 28, 2020

Tribal Wisdom from KE3IJ

›
Lots of homebrew wisdom on OM Rick's web site .  Excerpts:  ---------------- Why am I not on the air as much as I'm tinke...
1 comment:
Sunday, February 23, 2020

TRGHS: Hearing K5HCT Through a Single 12AU7 Tube with 12 Volts on the Plate (Video)

›
The lower portion of the column on the right-hand side of this blog is where I put links to interesting blogs, YouTube channels, and web s...