Showing posts with label minimalist radio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label minimalist radio. Show all posts
Friday, June 10, 2022

SolderSmoke FDIM Interview: Adam K6ARK and his 2.6 gram Mini-Pixie SMD Transceiver

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I've not bee a big fan of the super-simple Pixie transceiver, but Adam K6ARK could make me a believer.  Our correspondent Bob Crane W8SX...
Thursday, March 3, 2022

Pete's Pea Shooter is ON THE AIR! -- QRP HB SSB FB

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  https://n6qw.blogspot.com/2022/03/march-3-2022-peashooter-makes-contacts.html QRP HB SSB FB
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

SolderSmoke Podcast #234: PSSST, KWM-1, VHF Woes, Mighty Midget, TinySA, 17-12 Dual-Bander Advice Needed. MAILBAG

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http://www.gadgeteer.us/17SSB.HTM SolderSmoke Podcast #234 is available:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke234.mp3 Roots of SolderSmoke: Th...
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Saturday, July 18, 2020

Overcoming the Complexity of the Michigan Mighty Mite: Walter's Sunrise Net Special

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From Walter  KA4KXX June 21, 2020 Michigan Mighty-Mite:  Why So Complicated? The April 2020 issue of QRP Quarterly magazine f...
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Thursday, May 28, 2020

Tribal Wisdom from KE3IJ

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Lots of homebrew wisdom on OM Rick's web site .  Excerpts:  ---------------- Why am I not on the air as much as I'm tinke...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Double Trouble: Notes on TWO Hallicrafters S-38E Restorations and Alignments (with videos)

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Winterfest S-38E on the left, junker on the right  I have been talking bad about the Hallicrafters S-38E receiver for several years now....
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Monday, February 17, 2020

K6RRE's One Tube Rig Project

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Mike will send us more info later... 
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Sunday, December 15, 2019

Hangin' it up (the ET-2)

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My ET-2 minimalist QRP CW adventure is (for now) officially over.   I have taken the rig - festooned with the callsigns of all the stati...
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Friday, December 6, 2019

My QRPp Signal Arrived in Utah -- 100 mW, 1950 miles, 26 db Above the Noise!

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So yesterday morning I was calling CQ on 40 meters with my ET2 two-transistor 100 mW rig.  Later, I took a look at the Reverse Beacon N...
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

ET-2 Contact #18 W4FOA -- RANDOM, UNSCHEDULED, AND NOT SPOTTED (Video)

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On December 1, 2019,  my 100 milliwatt signal flew more than 500 miles to reach Tony W4FOA in Chickamauga, Georgia. And -- icing on the ca...
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Sunday, December 1, 2019

ET-2 Contact #16 -- Pete, KD2OMV, Builder of a 6T9er (with video)

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Yesterday I had my  first contact using the ET-2's improved receiver.  I had watched the video of N0WVA's receiver and I realized ...
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Monday, November 25, 2019

SolderSmoke Podcast #215 Regen Madness, KWM-4, Paesano, Mailbag

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Latest N2CQR version of N0WVA's Regen SolderSmoke Podcast #215 is available.  25 November 2019 http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmok...
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Thursday, November 21, 2019

Notes and Video on Doug N0WVA's Amazing Single Transistor Regenerative Receiver

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When I had trouble getting the regen receiver in W2UW's ET-1 circuit to work, I turned to the internet and -- through AA7EE'...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Listen to the ET-2's Minimalist Regen Receiver

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I'm guessing that most of you have never listened to a regen receiver that uses only one transistor.  So in these videos I've t...
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Monday, November 11, 2019

SV3ORA's Amazing Homebrew Web Site

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Kostas Giannopoulos  has  a lot of really great homebrew information on his QRP web site .  It is reminiscent of the JF1OZL site. Check it...
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Saturday, November 9, 2019

SPRAT, the FETer, DLR headphones, and recent QSOs on the ET-2

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Yesterday we had QSO #13 on the ET-2.  This was with Jim W1PID.  In an earlier contact Jim told me I had some chirp.  I fiddled with the ...
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Thursday, November 7, 2019

The ET-2 with Callsign Tattoos

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Slots are still available!   Get your callsign on the ET-2! This rig will probably soon turn into wall art here at SolderSmoke HQ...
Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Contact #10 with the ET-2 -- Perry K9NZ

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Perry K9NZ was contact #10 with my ET-2 QRPp rig.   I found the above on his QRZ page.  Beautiful sentiments.  Most of us have s...
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Saturday, November 2, 2019

SolderSmoke Podcast #214 is FINALLY out!

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WE ARE WORKING TO IMPROVE THE AUDIO QUALITY.  IN THE FIRST RELEASE OF THIS PODCAST SOME OF THE AUDIO WAS KIND OF MUFFLED.  I TRIED TO...
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Friday, October 25, 2019

Minimalist Masochism at Solar Minima -- But More Contacts with the ET-2

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Dylan Thoams   "Rage, rage against the dying of the light"  I thought of that line from Dylan Thomas's poem when I read...
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