Showing posts with label homebrew. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homebrew. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Charlie ZL2CTM Talks Homebrew with NJ7V on Red Summit RF

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV489xbf34I NJ7V has a good interview with famed NZ homebrewer Charlie Morris ZL2CTM.  Charlie describes h...
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Saturday, October 3, 2026

Helge LA6NCA Does It Again! This Time Homebrew CW Solid-State QRP.

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This one is really cool, and reminds us what an intrepid and skilled radio amateur like Helge can do.  I really liked the simple scheme he u...
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Monday, September 28, 2026

This Guy Designed His Own Microprocessor Chip -- But Is This REALLY Design?

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First, hats off to this fellow.  He deserves a lot of credit for even trying this.   But... I think this shows how DIFFERENT designging thes...
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Friday, September 11, 2026

Why Chip Circuits Can Never be Truly Homebrew: ASML's Amazing Photolithography -- Please Comment

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  As I watched this video, I had many thoughts.   Here are some of them:  1)  The complexity of the ASML machine is a reminder of how far IC...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Helge LA6NCA Builds a One Tube CW Transceiver -- And Makes a Contact!

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Helge has done it again!  He has shown us the benefits of homebrew CW.  And he has done it with one tube.  FB Helge.  Of course, I really li...
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Thursday, August 13, 2026

Paul Taylor VK3HN Talks about Hombrew and SOTA

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkd1o2PQI9M It was great to see Charlie NJ7V of Red Summit RF interview Paul Taylor, VK3HN.  Paul has bee...
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

A German Builder Makes a 2 Meter Receiver - Warts and All!

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First, you probably need to turn on closed captioning, and select autotranslate, probably to English.   This video is worth it.  This fellow...
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Thursday, July 30, 2026

But did he really create this device? What do you think?

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A good friend, who was thinking very positively, sent me this video.  I looked at it, and concluded that while this fellow seems to believe ...
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Sunday, July 26, 2026

Helge LA6NCA Builds and Uses a Two Tube 80 meter Transceiver -- From Norway

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This entire video is really excellent.  Thank you Helge!  Once again, he shows us how to do it -- how to homebrew a useful rig, and how to p...
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Thursday, July 23, 2026

A Homebrew Receiver from Hidehiko JA9MAT

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We recently complained that no SolderSmoke Direct Conversion receivers have been built in Japan.  So far, no Japanese SS DC Receivers have b...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2026

A Really FB HB QRP QSL Card from New Zealand

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  That's the spirit!  The solder is melting.  Note the oscilloscope.  Note the books on the shelf. This amazingly good QSL card was sent...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2026

First QSO by Chris (aka Morny) G7LQX and it was Homebrew CW!

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I must have missed this five months ago, but better late than never: Congratulations to Chris G7LQX for his first ham radio contact.  And he...
Saturday, April 11, 2026

DSB Homebrew from Macedonia -- Sasho Z33ST

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  This is a really nice DSB transceiver in progress.   Below you see the modules, above you see how the modules will fit onto the board.  DO...
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Thursday, April 9, 2026

ANOTHER AMAZING Homebrew Station -- This one from Belgium -- ON1MWS

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  Those large "steering wheels" on the regen rig caught my attention, and I'm glad they did, because they led me to the sites ...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2026

A really AMAZING Homebrew Station in Brunei

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Didier is F5NPV but he is V85MPV in Brunei for a few years.  Check out his amazing QRZ page:    https://www.qrz.com/db/V85NPV
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Wednesday, April 1, 2026

U.S. Administration Supports Ham Radio Homebrew

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  In a decision that puzzled many analysts, the Federal Communications Commission has come out with a new policy that seems to support the a...
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Monday, March 9, 2026

Steve N7HPR Describes the Group Build of 10 SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receivers

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Group Build of the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver Challenge By Steven Bible, N7HPR Andrew Johnson Amateur Radio Club and Greene ...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Why is it that AI-provided electronic circuits often don't work in the real world?

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Like many, I have turned to AI for circuit ideas.  And like many, I have been surprised by how many of these ideas just don't work.  I h...
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Thursday, January 1, 2026

Walter KA4KXX's Innovative 20-meter SolderSmoke Direct-Conversion Honorable-Mention Receiver

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  It is a thing of beauty.  We were really pleased to see our old friend Walter KA4KXX take on the SolderSmoke challenge, and we weren't...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Pete N6QW Asks Copilot about Homebrew vs. Store Bought

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Copilot is remarkably perceptive.   This AI-generated message really explains very well the differences between homebrew and store bought ge...
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