Showing posts with label SSB. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SSB. Show all posts
Saturday, December 7, 2024

My Receiver Doesn't Work Right! What Should I Do?

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An early version of our DC receiver.  Note the tuning guide under the grey tuning knob.  We prepared this for use by the high school student...
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Friday, December 6, 2024

SimpleX Super Superhet Receiver -- A Great Video from Mike WU2D

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Here is another great video (and project) from Mike WU2D.  I'm a big fan of homebrew superhets.  And wow, Mike presents a band-imaging s...
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Monday, November 25, 2024

Pete N6QW Has Hybrid Rig On-The-Air

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  A thing of beauty on a wooden board.  Pete's post:   https://n6qw.blogspot.com/2024/11/11252024-1st-dx-with-40m-hybrid-rig.html "...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Bill N2CQR Builds Yet Another Mythbuster Transceiver

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  This one is for 20 meters (no need for 75) and will go to the Dominican Republic. 6 crystal filter at 5.2 MHz. VFO from old Yaesu FT-101 ...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2024

KA1MUQ's Amazing Homebrew Hybrid Rig

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  Nate KA1MUQ is still working on this rig and so has not yet produced any detailed schematics, but he sent this to us to show that true hom...
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Wednesday, October 2, 2024

4Z4GE's Homebrew Tube SSB Transmitter from Israel, 1974

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https://www.nzeldes.com/Miscellany/SSB-rig.htm  Very cool. I like his description of how he found parts for this transmitter:   The power am...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

A Clean Vintage Ham Radio Transmitter: The Collins 32S-3

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In an article on IMD and splatter,  tech guru Rob Sherwood noted that the cleanest tranmitter he had ever owened was the Colling 32S-3.   He...
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Monday, September 9, 2024

IMD in Transmitters -- Splatter? Or Signal Strength?

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https://www.newsvhf.com/conf2024/PresPapers/WA1MBA-IMD_in_Transmitters.pdf Here is a good (and very recent) article on IMD ("splatter...
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Saturday, September 7, 2024

IMD and Splatter

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  https://www.robkalmeijer.nl/techniek/electronica/radiotechniek/hambladen/hr/1988/10/page71/index.html I think the point I was trying to ma...
Monday, April 8, 2024

Woebot -- An AI-Based Therapy Bot for Us?

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  This was on 60 Minutes last night.  Of course it made me think of our many "Tales of Woe."  Perhaps this could be of use to us. ...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

How to Feel Bad about Carrier Suppression (and How to Get Over It)

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Version 2 of the 15-10 rig continues to give me trouble.  But I guess it is "good trouble" because I am learning from it.  You see...
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Friday, March 15, 2024

Finishing up (?) Version 2 of my 15-10 Transceiver (Video) -- An Annoying Residual Carrier Problem

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Front panel is on. RF PA is installed. Balanced Modulator problem fixed (?) Rig is on the air with about 3 watts, working lots of DX. But t...
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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Yet ANOTHER Homebrew 15-10 SSB Transceiver (Video #1)

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A homebrew 15-10 SSB Rig for the Dominican Republic: This is my second build of this rig. I am using a 10 pole crystal filter that I built ...
Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Mostly DIY RF's Kit of Pete N6QW's P3ST

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  There it is.  Truly a thing of beauty. Order yours today!   https://mostlydiyrf.com/p3st/
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Monday, September 4, 2023

SolderSmoke Podcast #248 -- Back from the Summer -- Spurs and Filters, S-meters, 6BA6 mania, Shirtpocket rigs, MAILBAG

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The PsssT Kit, coming soon from Mostly DIY RF SolderSmoke Podcast #248 is available for download:  Audio:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmok...
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Thursday, January 12, 2023

On Ten Meters with a uBITX from the Eastern Tip of Hispaniola

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On ten from HI7.  Cluster spots, DX, CW, and the Reverse Beacon Network.   
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Faust Gonsett and the SB-33 in 1963

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  Click on the images for better views When this ad appeared in 73 Magazine in February 1963 I was 4 years old, living on Manhattan Island. ...
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Thursday, September 1, 2022

New Video: Farhan's Presentation on the "Daylight Again" Analog Transceiver

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LOTS of tribal wisdom in this presentation by Farhan VU2ESE.  For more info, go to:  https://www.vu2ese.com/ index.php/2022/08/04/daylight- ...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

SolderSmoke Podcast #156 -- November 4, 2013 -- Interview with Peter Parker VK3YE of Melbourne, Australia

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November 4, 2013 Special hour-long interview with Peter Parker, VK3YE -- Early experiences with radio -- CW -- DSB Gear -- Simple gear, and ...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

HF Bandsweep with the Hammarlund HQ-100 (video)

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It has been a while since we last did a bandsweep.  Too long.  Here is one using my recently fixed up Hammarlund HQ-100.  Repair details are...