Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Monday, September 16, 2024

"QRP Classics" The Book that Got Me Started in Homebrew

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https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2022/09/fixing-up-old-homebrew-rig-barebones.html A question this morning from Scott KQ4AOP caused me to Go...
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Monday, February 5, 2024

"The Soul of a New Machine" -- Re-reading the Classic Book by Tracy Kidder

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This book is especially important to the SolderSmoke community because its title has led to one of the most important concepts in our commun...
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Saturday, January 20, 2024

K0IYE's Thoughts on Homebrewing and Workshops

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Click on the image for a clearer look I like Frank Harris K0IYE's book so much that I don't mind posting about it frequently.   ...
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Sunday, December 17, 2023

Make Your Own SDR Software! And, "Analog Man" by Joe Walsh of the Eagles (WB6ACU)

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The above video appeared on Hack-A-Day this morning.  ON THE SAME MORNING, Bruce KK0S happened to send me this version of Joe Walsh WB6ACU...
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Friday, November 24, 2023

A FREE Book from the Early Days of Ham Projects with Transistors: The CK722 -- The Device that Got Pete Juliano Started in Homebrew

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  Pete N6QW sent this amazing book to me this morning.  Pete wrote:  "The book was the size of a Notebook and had a gray cover.  I buil...
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Friday, November 10, 2023

SolderSmoke Podcast #249 -- Travel, Pete's 6BA6 rig, Books!, VFOs, SDR, Computers, Spectrum Analysers, Transistor Man! MAILBAG

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New VFO for 15-10 Transceiver Schematic below SolderSmoke Podcast #249 is available:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke249.mp3 There is als...
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Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Basil Mahon is an Author for Us -- He explains Faraday, Maxwell, and Heaviside

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  Armand WA1UQO has sent me two of Basil Mahon's books.  They are both really great.  He is a wonderful writer who has the rare ability ...
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Saturday, October 14, 2023

Paul VK3HN's Video on Scratch-Building and SOTA

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It was great to get a comment from Paul VK3HN -- this led to a re-establishment of contact.  Apparently Google knows who I have been e-maili...
Saturday, September 23, 2023

Sunburst and Luminary -- An Apollo Memoir by Don Eyles (video)

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Buy the book from the Amazon link on the right side of the page >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>...
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Saturday, September 16, 2023

"The Art of Electronics" by Horowitz and Hill (First in a Series of Blog Posts on this Great Book)

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Paul Horowitz Oh man, this book is so good.  You really just need to buy it now.  I put it in the Amazon link to the right. OVER HERE >...
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Sunday, April 16, 2023

Inside "Open Circuits"

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Here is a cool video about a very cool book.  I wasn't going to buy it, but when I saw it  in a book store, I opened it up to a random p...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Winterfest Loot: Who Can ID the Homebrew Receiver?

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First a big congratulations to the Vienna Wireless Society and its President, Dean KK4DAS.  In spite of low temperatures that made the Winte...
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Friday, January 20, 2023

Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components

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I was not going to buy this book.   But then, Elisa and I were in a book store and there it was.  I decided to take a look.  I opened it to ...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Is Envelope Detection a Fable? Or is it Real? Diodes, Square Laws and all that

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HOW ENVELOPE DETECTION (SUPPOSEDLY?) WORKS  Most of us grew up with the above diagram of how a receiver detects (demodulates) an AM signal. ...
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Monday, September 26, 2022

Open Circuits: Cutting Open Components for a Look inside -- First Chapter Free

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  Bob KD4EBM sent me this:  “….  Eric Schlaepfer ( @TubeTimeUS ) and   Windell Oskay   (co-founder of   Evil Mad Scientist )’s latest book, ...
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Thursday, September 8, 2022

Another Free Book: Contra Cross

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  The free Kindle offer is now on!   Bezos is letting me give this one away for five days:  September 9, 2022  12 am PDT to September 13 202...
Sunday, September 4, 2022

Free Book! "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" by Bill Meara. Free for the Next Five Days

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  From time to time, Amazon lets me make my books available for free on Amazon Kindle.    SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Elect...
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Sunday, July 10, 2022

A Truly Great Book: "From Atoms to Amperes" by F.A. Wilson (Free Download)

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  This is a really wonderful book.  I'm glad worldradiohistory.com has found a way to make it available as a free download.  This is the...
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Sunday, June 19, 2022

A Great Book on Oscillators (Analog LC Oscillators) by John F. Rider (Free!)

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  Thanks to Peter Parker VK3YE for alerting us to this wonderful 1940 book.  John F. Rider -- a real hero of electronic literature -- does ...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2022

SolderSmoke FDIM Interview: Jack Purdum W8TEE on the Challenges of Decoding CW by Software

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  In his interview with SolderSmoke correspondent Bob Crane, Jack Purdum made some very interesting comments about the challenges of decodin...