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My Franklin VFO Lee KD4RE of the Vienna Wireless Society has been talking about the Franklin oscillator. He has been telling us that it is v...

Great stuff.  Lots of wonderful articles filled with wisdom to ponder.    http://w7zoi.net/oldtech/ponder.html Thanks to Tony G4WIF for spot...

  Take a look at the simple little mixer above.  I think I first saw it in SPRAT.  Thinking that it was really just a simplified version of ...

  Exactly what we've been saying about Drake 2-Bs and copies of SSDRA!  

  This is such a beautiful project:  it involves DSB, homebrew, troubleshooting, George Dobbs, SSDRA, J310s, a box kite,  and ham radio nost...

http://www.arrl.org/shop/Experimental-Methods-in-RF-Design-Classic-Reprint-Edition/ And it includes a .pdf copy of Solid State Design fo...

Paul Taylor VK3HN has really outdone himself in this video (above) and blog post . He describes coming across a somewhat mysterious homebr...

During this StayInTheShack (SITS) emergency, it is good to have something to work on.  I decided it would be best to try to build somet...

Just in case some other fanatic someday thinks about trying to turn a Herring Aid 5 and a Tuna Tin 2 into a Fish Soup 10. This will als...

Happy New Year!     There was so much wisdom and tribal knowledge in Eric Guth's interview with Jeff Damm WA7MLH. It was ...

I am having a lot of fun with Farhan's new BITX 40 Module.  I think I'm doing exactly what Farhan intended people to do with ...

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...

Yesterday I came across this very nice video -- I thought you guys would like it.  2E0VIR obviously has The Knack! I'm building a ve...

  I had a great time at the Vienna Wireless Society's  Winterfest Hamfest.  As I have done for several years now, I joined forces with...

Bob N7SUR was getting discouraged.  The hams at the Rickreal Hamfest didn't seem really interested in his display about homebrewi...

OK, so now that I have the MOXON in the air, my thoughts are turning to amplifiers and a possible winter project. Hey, even QRP guru Do...

We did a short article on Yi Yao a while back , noting that he definitely has The Knack.   His homebrew frequency counter  (above) confi...

Hi Bill, Just wanted to pass some pics of the Central Coast ARC Hamfest in New South Wales at Wyong approx 100km north of Sydney and about ...

Jeff Damm, WA7MLH, is one of our gurus, a high priest of The Knack. I visit his excellent site from time to time, just on the off chan...

While up in Rotterdam I started thinking about Class C Amps and the standard formula used to calculate power out and load resistance: Rl =...