Showing posts with label Summers-Hans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Summers-Hans. Show all posts
Friday, July 28, 2023

Phase Noise and the Radio Amateur

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A weak signal disappears in the phase noise of the stronger signal. The March 1988 QST provides a relatively clear explanation of what phase...
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Saturday, May 27, 2023

Hans Summers G0UPL and his new QMX: The Bob Crane W8SX FDIM Interviews Part 1 (audio)

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http://qrp-labs.com/qmx.html We are very pleased and grateful to present this year's series of Four Days in May interviews by our FDIM c...
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Friday, February 17, 2023

Ham Radio Pico Balloons Feared Shot Down by USAF

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The Aviation Week article below helped to confirm some of my worst fears about the balloon thing.  For a long I've wanted to launch one ...
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Monday, June 20, 2022

QRP Labs HQ Tour

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Really cool to see Hans describe his QRP Labs workshop in Turkey.  Lots of soul in that worshop.  Thanks Hans.    And here is a 2022 Turkish...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Hans Summers G0UPL Wins FDIM 2N2222A Power Out Challenge -- 4.1 Watts from Two 2N2222As

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Farhan told me how cool this was.  And he was right.  It looks like a lot of fun.  Congratulations Hans!    
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Monday, June 6, 2022

SolderSmoke FDIM Interviews: Hans Summers G0UPL Talks about the QDX and His New Balloon Tracker

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  Thanks to Bob Crane W8SX for getting us this wonderful interview with Hans G0UPL.  Its really amazing to hear Hans talk about how many QDX...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

Video #3 17/12 Transceiver -- Receiver is Working on 12 and 17 meters (Listen! Video!)

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Here is an update on the 1712 transceiver project. The receiver circuitry is done and I can listen on 17 and 12 meters. In this video I w...
Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Farhan's Amazing Knack Story: From a Boyhood SW Receiver to the Design of the sBITX SDR

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The presentation starts at about the 4 minute point.  I think if I were only allowed to watch one YouTube video in the next year, I'd ma...
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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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Saturday, September 19, 2020

SolderSmoke Podcast #225: Mars, uSDX, G-QRP, HP8640B, DX-390, Rotary Tools, Walla Walla SDR, MAILBAG

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SolderSmoke Podcast #225 is available http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke225.mp3 Mars,  West Coast smoke. Pete's Activities:  -- DC recei...
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Friday, September 18, 2020

Mixer Insights using Propellers and Cameras -- From Walla Walla University. And SDR Design Info.

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  Pete Eaton sent us this video from the 2020 ARRL/TAPR Communications Conference.   I have the portion of interest cued up (above).  (The...
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Monday, August 31, 2020

Global Collaboration: The uSDX -- A Multi-Mode QCX

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Bill: There is a new open source, home brew, multi band, multi mode QRP transceiver that grew out of the QRP Labs QCX. Through some ...
Monday, June 1, 2020

Adam N0ZIB's FB Station (and UGLY Michigan Mighty Mite)

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Bill and Pete,  Thanks for the work you put into your podcast. I’ve been listening to it on my commute and while at work (I’m a welde...
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Sunday, May 31, 2020

QCX SSB -- But How Much QCX Remains?

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Hack-A-Day carried a very nice video describing recent efforts to turn Hans Summers' amazing QCX CW monoband transceiver into a multi-...
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Sunday, May 3, 2020

QSO Today -- Episode 300 -- Panel Discussion

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Congratulations to Eric Guth, 4Z1UG for reaching episode #300 on his QSO Today podcast.  To commemorate the event, Eric organized a pan...
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Saturday, June 22, 2019

SolderSmoke Podcast #212 HDR, Boatanchors, SDR, Antuinos, Spurs, QSX, Mailbag

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Dale Parfitt W4OP's  SBE-33 with modern digi freq counter SolderSmoke Podcast #212 is available:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmo...
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Sunday, May 19, 2019

FDIM Interview with Hans Summers G0UPL on QSX SDR Rig, Probable Price, Features

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Wow, our ace correspondent in Dayton/Xenia Ohio, Bob Crane W8SX, did a great interview with homebrew hero Hans Summers G0UPL.   Hans di...
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Sunday, May 5, 2019

SSB on the QCX? Sounds pretty good here (Video)

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In SolderSmoke #211 we reported on recent efforts to generate SSB from the QCX CW phasing rig -- we said that we'd heard that the effo...
Thursday, December 27, 2018

W7RLF Homebrews a Receiver -- FB!

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Ryan W7RLF has joined the small and elite group of radio amateurs who have homebrewed a receiver.  And it is a receiver filled with soul, j...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Built-in Spectrum Analyzer in Hans Summers' QSX Rig.

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I agree completely with the e-mojis.   Wow!  Cool!  I love it!  Hans Summers is a genius.  This is almost enough to make me get with t...
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