Showing posts with label Si5351. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Si5351. Show all posts
Saturday, February 10, 2024

SolderSmoke Podcast #250 Dean KK4DAS joins Pete N6QW and Bill N2CQR

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SolderSmoke Podcast # 250 is ready for download:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke250.mp3 VIDEO VERSION:  (1707) SolderSmoke Podcast #250 ...
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Monday, July 17, 2023

Going Down the Phase Noise Rabbit Hole with the IMSAI Guy (VIDEO) -- Is there a better way?

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Chimera:   2 . a thing that is  hoped  or  wished  for but in fact is  illusory  or impossible to achieve. (from the Oxford English Language...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Nine Homebrew Transceivers by Walter KA4KXX (and some QRP and QRO RC planes)

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  Our friend Walter KA4KXX in Orlando recently sent us this really cool "family photo" of his homebrew rigs.  Be sure to see the k...
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Friday, May 5, 2023

SolderSmoke Podcast #246: PeteGPT! DC RX, Si5351, Franklin osc, Cuban DSB, Hex beams, uBITX mods, DX, 10 meters, MAILBAG

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  SolderSmoke Podcast #246 is available:  AUDIO PODCAST:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke246.mp3 YouTube VIDEO:  (247) SolderSmoke Po...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023

The Awesome Homebrew of Will KI4POV

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  Will's homebrew station is really something.  The rig (it truly qualifies for this term of praise) is amazing all by itself  (see belo...
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Monday, December 5, 2022

Cargo Culting, Appliances, and Homebrewing

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Hack-A-Day had an interesting short piece on cargo culting and computer coding: https://hackaday.com/2022/12/03/cargo-culting-and-buried-tre...
Thursday, November 17, 2022

SDR Direct Sampling: The End of Homebrewing (as we know it)

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I sometimes hear hams claim that our efforts to build simple direct conversion receivers are "very relevant" to modern technology ...
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Thursday, August 4, 2022

Farhan Takes us Back into the Daylight -- An Analog Rig with a Homebrew Crystal Filter and an LC VFO

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  There is so much radio goodness in this rig and in the blog post that describes it.  Farhan's blog post will keep us busy for a long t...
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Friday, June 3, 2022

Phase Noise and all that

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Our friend Dave K8WPE has been listening to old podcasts.  He recently came across those in which Pete and I were talking about phase noise....
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Thursday, May 12, 2022

Who is JF3HZB? (The Creator of that Nice Digital VFO Dial) -- Some Links

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Many of these sites are in Japanese.   Just look for the translate button on your browsers.   YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/...
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Sunday, May 8, 2022

The JF3HZB Digital VFO Dial in the DJ7OO Direct Conversion Receiver (Who is JF3HZB?)

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Pete was talking about this beautiful Digital VFO dial in the latest podcast.  In response, Klaus sent me an e-mail with links and the video...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Level UP EE Lab Builds a Superhet Receiver

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I was really glad to have stumbled across Darren's YouTube channel:  (46) Level UP EE Lab - YouTube Heck, he has an S-38E on the shelf a...
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Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Dennis WC8C's FB Homebrew 6 Meter Rig -- Any Ideas or Suggestions?

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  Dennis WC8C is the event coordinator for the radio club in Michigan that I recently spoke with.  He mentioned to me that he was working on...
Monday, February 28, 2022

LA6NCA Designs and Builds a Very Hybrid 80 Meter Transmitter (Si5351 and a 12A6 Tube) (Video)

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Helge LA6NCA put out a really nice video explaining how he designed and built an 80 meter transmitter.  I like how he put the Si5351 and the...
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Wednesday, December 29, 2021

My Kind of Chip: A Homebrew Discrete 555 Timer Built on Wooden Boards (video)

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This is really beautiful. Radraksha Vegad (Pargrahi) from India built a discrete component version of the venerable 555 timer chip.  He buil...
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Sunday, December 12, 2021

Hack-a-Day: Has DIY become Click-and-Buy?

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https://hackaday.com/2021/12/11/has-diy-become-click-and-buy/ Hack-A-Day today asks about the boundaries between DIY construction and the us...
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Sunday, November 21, 2021

KG7TR's Magnificent 75S-2B Receiver -- Tubes, an Si5351, an Arduino, a Bit of Collins, and a Bit of a Drake 2-B

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  Oh man, I share this with much trepidation because the last time I posted something about the work of Mike KG7TR ,  Pete N6QW said he fel...
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Monday, June 14, 2021

M0NTV's Latest FB SSB Transceiver

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Wow, Nick has a really wonderful rig and has made this great video to explain it.  Elements that I really liked:  -- The simple mic and comp...
Monday, November 30, 2020

Adam N0ZIB's Direct Conversion Transceiver

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This is obviously very cool, but looking ahead I think Adam should think about adding one more mixer, changing the bias on the TX amps, and ...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Wisdom from AA0ZZ: NO LIBRARIES! ASSEMBLER CODE ONLY! -- "Digital Crap" -- "No Magic Fruit" What qualifies as a real rig? Si570 vs. Si5351

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  Bill, Why do you guys make your Soldersmoke podcasts so darn intriguing such that I can’t listen to them in the background while I’m doing...
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