Showing posts with label magazines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label magazines. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 26, 2024

The Importance to Bell Labs of Lunch or Breakfast with Harry Nyquist -- "The Communicator" -- Bimonthly Publication of the Surrey (British Columbia) ARC.

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This is a good sample (!) of the great content to be found in "The Communicator." This is the bimonthly publication of the Surrey ...
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Thursday, January 18, 2024

Some Great Reading Material -- Links to Radio Publications

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  https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Home-DX.htm My fellow Hambassador Dave WA1LBP sent this to me today (from Taiwan, I think).  Lots of gre...
Sunday, December 24, 2023

A Nice Searchable Compilation of "Hot Iron" Issues

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Tom K4ZAD writes:  Bill, This might make good copy for the SolderSmoke Daily News:       https://www.w4npn.net/hot-iron -searchable-compilat...
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Saturday, January 28, 2023

Hugo Gernsback -- Was he Like Wayne Green?

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"The Electrical Experimenter" sent to me by Nick M0NTV reminded me of Hugo Gernsback.  Many of the radio books I have on my shelf ...
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Thursday, January 26, 2023

"The Electrical Experimenter" -- A Treasure Trove of Inspiration

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Oh this is really phenomenal.  Nick "the Vic"  M0NTV is on the mend from some routine surgery.  While mending he found this 1915 i...
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Saturday, November 27, 2021

The Galway Radio Experimenters Club

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  My old friend Mike EI0CL used to remind me that hams in Ireland are granted not just an amateur radio license, but an amateur radio exper...
Sunday, January 17, 2021

STOP. LISTEN. Shep on Building a Shortwave Receiver

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Oh man, how could I have possibly missed this one?  Perhaps I didn't, but even if this one has been on the blog before, it is so good th...
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Sunday, January 10, 2021

The Dream of a Shortwave Fiend

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  Thanks to Mark Rowley and Jeff Murray for posting this magazine cover on Facebook.
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Sunday, September 27, 2020

A Suitcase Portable 40 Meter CW Station from 1951

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  Wow.  Check this out: http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/homebrew/W9FKC.pdf A very nice  rig built by an amazing homebrewer  And thanks to Al Kl...
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Friday, July 10, 2020

100 Years Ago: Hugo Gernsback on "An Amazing Art"

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I like the art work in the header.  I like the reference to "the radio art."  I like that he refers in the first half of the pie...
Monday, June 22, 2020

Join up NOW!

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From the front cover of the July 14, 1934 issue of Amateur Wireless.   This UK weekly magazine was the predecessor of Practical Wireles...
Thursday, June 4, 2020

No Main-Tuning Reduction Drives in Stock Drake 2-Bs -- But why no mod articles?

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Alan Wolke W2AEW and I were recently discussing our Drake 2-Bs (again!). Both of our receivers have reduction drives between the main t...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

These Variable Capacitors Work -- Ether or No Ether!

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Amazing that the arguments about the presence or absence of a luminiferous ether made its way into parts advertisements in a radio maga...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

From a Student of C.F. Rockey, W9SCH

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C.F. Rockey W9SCH We have discussed the monumental work of C.F. Rockey, W9SCH, SK  before .  Yesterday a comment appeared under that po...
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Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Back issues of QRPp -- Journal of the NORCAL QRP Club --- Free Online

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https://www.ncqrpp.org/?fbclid=IwAR3VUVXlZE8jpJj8L-1sxtfHCFw-9wEyF_4rBXOjbV78Is7tV4VApl6so6c
Sunday, September 16, 2018

WB8VGE on QSO Today -- QRP, HB, Boatanchors, Drift, Solar Power

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Eric 4Z1UG has a really good interview with Mike Bryce, WB8VGE.  Listen here:  https://www.qsotoday.com/podcasts/WB8VGE I've...
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Thursday, June 21, 2018

"Hot Iron" #100 -- Thanks Tim Walford!

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Tim Walford, G3PCJ has put out issue #100 of Hot Iron, the Journal of the Constructors Club.  That my friends is a long time publishing...
Sunday, October 29, 2017

Ron Gang, 4X1MK on "QSO Today" Podcast: Knack Story, Satellites, Quads, Philosophy

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Wow, Eric Guth's interview with Ron Gang 4X1MK really resonated with me:  -- Asked about how he got is start in radio, Ron went ba...
Saturday, October 28, 2017

BITX40 Featured in "Nuts and Volts"

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Congratulations to Steve Jackson and to "Nuts and Volts" for putting out a very nice article on the BITX40 transceiver.   St...
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Saturday, April 22, 2017

VFO Tribal Design Wisdom from Joseph Carr K4IPV (SK)

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I had in my files somewhere this great article by Joseph Carr K4IPV about the design of ham band VFOs, but then I lost it.  Yesterday I fo...
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