Showing posts with label homebrew. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homebrew. Show all posts
Saturday, November 1, 2025

Another GREAT Book -- L.B. Cebik, W4RNL's "Seven Steps to Designing your Own Ham Equipment" - 1979 - FREE!

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Thanks to Walter KA4KXX for alerting us to this gem of a book.  L.B. Cebik is best known as an antenna guru.  I did not know that he also di...
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Friday, October 17, 2025

"Keep Calm and Solder On"

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  So not everything that comes from AI is bad. This AI generated picture is pretty good.  That actually looks a bit like my rig.  And as som...
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Thursday, October 16, 2025

A Wonderful Homebrew Direct Conversion Receiver (and other HB projects) from Italy

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This morning I asked YouTube to show me recently posted videos of "ham radio homebrew."  The results were disappointingly meager.....
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Thursday, June 26, 2025

Hack-A-Day on the Tao of Bespoke Electronics

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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/the-tao-of-bespoke-electronics/#comment-8142333 My comment:   Good post with good points about the under-app...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025

F6GUH: True Homebrew

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  Philippe put it this way:  "Radio is my religion, my shack is my church."  20 Meter transceiver 40 Meter Transceiver 80 meter tr...
Friday, June 6, 2025

A Tale of "Ten Minute Transmitters" and "Tuna Tin Twos": N2CQR Goes Back to CW QRP!

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I nspired by K1OA and KA4KXX , I put the SolderSmoke DC receiver to work on the CW portion of 40 meters. At first I used a very (perhaps ov...
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Thursday, May 15, 2025

WWII Homebrew In Norway

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  Go to amateurradio r/amateurradio • 14 hr. ago steeljoo How My Grandfather Tuned Into London During WWII with a Radio He Built in Secret G...
Monday, May 5, 2025

I admit it. I am not 100% homebrew. I hang my head in shame.

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Walter KA4KXX and Mike WN2A and I were recently talking about the degree to which we are 100% homebrew.  Both these guys come a lot closer t...
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Thursday, April 24, 2025

The Copasteic Flow Blog -- German UHF Mobile CW Through a Geostationary Satellite, Agent Sonya's Homebrewing, More

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It is always good to be reminded that someone out there is listening and reading,  especially when it is nice folks like Hamilton and his fa...
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Saturday, April 19, 2025

Agent Sonya -- Did Soviet Spies Really Homebrew Their Rigs?

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Ursula Kuczynski (Agent Sonya), 1936. Credit... via Peter Beurton My recent blog post about the intrepid Soviet hams who homebrewed versions...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Homebrew vs. Kits -- The influence of Russian Homebrewers

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  Click on the image for a better read.   Like Kirk, I too was influenced by the Russian and Eastern European homebrewers.  As a kid, every ...
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Sunday, February 16, 2025

Why Should We Build Analog Gear When the World has Gone Digital?

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Our friend Todd (Vasily) had recently been thinking about this on his excellent Popcorn Electronics blog:  https://qrp-popcorn.blogspot.com/...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Ugly and Manhattan Construction from Popcorn Electronics

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Todd (oops, I mean Vasily) has a really nice video on Ugly and Manhattan construction techniques on his re-born Popcorn Electronics site.  S...
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Monday, January 13, 2025

SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Challenge -- Video #1

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This is the first in a series of videos and postings on the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver challenge.  Dean, KK4DAS takes us throu...
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Sunday, January 12, 2025

Some History of Homebrew Ham Radio -- From Wikipedia and from K0IYE

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Frank Harris K0IYE's Homebrew Station From Wikipedia:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_homebrew   In the early years of ama...
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Friday, January 10, 2025

"The Magic That Only Comes from a Radio you Built Yourself" -- The Many Benefits of True Homebrew

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  Receiver on the bottom,built around 1997.  Transmitter upper right, built in 1993. Power supply upper left, 1998.   Adventures on the road...