Showing posts with label homebrew. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homebrew. Show all posts
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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Sunday, December 21, 2025

Frank Jones W6AJF on Homebrew, Thermatrons, and VHF

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We are in the Dominican Republic now. I thought SolderSmoke blog readers would like the introduction to Frank Jones W6AJF's VHF handbook...
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Thursday, December 11, 2025

Homebrew Radio from Southern India

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I came across this channel yesterday -- there is a lot of FB homebrew content here.  And it is partially in the Malayalam language of Kerala...
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...