Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Monday, September 30, 2024

Fernando's Rigs -- Vintage Ham Radio Receivers

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Thanks to Rogier PA1ZZ for sending me this YouTube link.  It is a truly wonderful channel from Spain. Not only the Collins Gold Dust Twins, ...
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Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Around the World Twice (and maybe more) on 15 meters

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  John EI7GL has a great blog post about some experiments recently done by Salvador EA5Y.  Salvador was aiming his 4 element yagi in one dir...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Building a Crystal Set (Videos)

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Andreas DL1AJG in Germany sent the above video to me.  Andreas is the fellow who ran the course in which his university-level students built...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

A Low-Power (QRP) Contact from Australia to Spain (with video from both sides!)

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A recent comment on the blog put me back in contact with an old friend of SolderSmoke:  Paul VK3HN.  Paul is an amazing homebrewer -- it was...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2023

"Onda Corta" ("Shortwave") -- A Short Film about Ham Radio in Venezuela (Please ID the Boatanchors!)

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https://youtu.be/J1QlKykhR2M?t=583 I have it cued up to 9:43 -- at that point Ramon is in his ham shack.   Lots of good stuff in there!  Ple...
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Tuesday, July 4, 2023

A Very Early Radio-Controlled Device -- Using Spark and a Coherer, in Spain

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Click on the picture for a better view -- check out the coherer and the tapper  Hack-A-Day has an interesting story about Leonardo Torres Qu...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2022

First Ever Contact on 12 Meters: Homebrew, QRP, SSB, DX (Video)

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I've recently finished most of the circuitry on the 17-12 meter dual band SSB transceiver. I have had contacts with it on 17 meters, bu...
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Thursday, December 3, 2020

Receiving Signals from China's Chang'e-5 Lunar Sample-Return Mission

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Background info:  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinas-change-5-mission-launches-to-collect-lunar-samples/  A great report f...
Saturday, August 1, 2020

SolderSmoke Podcast #224: Mars. Spurs. Bikes. SDR. NanoVNA. Antuino. MAILBAG

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SolderSmoke Podcast #224 is available: http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke224.mp3 1 August 2020 --The launch of Perseveranc...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2020

ON6UU's DB4020 EA3GCY Rig

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Hi, Recently I got the EA3GCY newsletter,  it announced a new kit DB4020,  a 2 band transceiver kit covering 40 and 20 mtrs.  I kno...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Please Listen: Something Wrong with Spanish National Radio Signal?

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I've been getting back into shortwave listening. One of my favorite stations is Radio Nacional de Espana (Spanish National Radio) fro...
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Saturday, January 18, 2020

The End Fed Half Wave Antenna and EFHW Tuners

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In the SPRAT 179 (Summer 2019) article describing their Peregrino (Pilgrim) transceiver,  Joan EA3FXF and Eduardo EA3GHS recommend the...
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Friday, February 24, 2017

More DSB, from Belgium and Spain

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Frank ON6UU writes: Hello Soldermelters,   Maybe some interesting news for you as there are some new kits at hand from EA3GCY...
Friday, February 3, 2017

A Mighty Mite, a BITX40, an ILER, some Arduinos, and the Joy of Oscillation in the United Arab Emirates

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Martin A65DC sent us this wonderful report on his efforts in the UAE.  His e-mail nicely conveys his enthusiasm.  I was especially please...
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Saturday, July 30, 2016

Pilgrim's Progress: A Peregrino Rig Concealed in a Book

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On the G-QRP list guys have been talking about the Peregrino .  This is a nice little homebrew rig out of Spain.  Peregrino = Pilgrim and...
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Friday, February 20, 2015

Italy, Spain, Gibraltar, a Flight to Prague, and How the Mighty Mite Really Works

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Gab IZ1KSW is a true Knack-afflicted member of the International Brotherhood of Electronic Wizards:  He is an Italian homebrewer who live...
Monday, June 2, 2014

El Peregrino (The Pilgrim) from Spain

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Eduardo, EA3GHS, sent this to me.  It looks like a wonderful bilateral SSB rig for 17 meters. They said they wanted a "daylight...
Friday, May 23, 2014

Meteor Shower Tonight

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If the skies are clear, and if I can stay awake, I'll be out there looking for the new meteor shower.  But there is no real need to go...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Mars Star Party from La Palma (video)

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Our book: "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" http://soldersmoke.com/book.htm Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts,...
Monday, January 21, 2013

An SSB kit from Spain

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The ILER-20 and ILER-40 SSB transceiver kits of Javier Solans, EA3GCY, look very interesting. For more info: http://www.qsl.net/ea3gcy/...
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