Patrick, F6AWY, The SSB Carpenter (Homebrew Hero)

 

There he is:  Patrick, F6AWY, the builder of the beautiful wooden-case SSB transceiver featured here two days ago.   Born in 1945, Patrick has been melting solder since age 15. This picture made me think that there must be some connection between string instruments and homebrew genius:  Farhan plays guitar.   So does Pete Juliano.  I think it was Rick Campbell who was strumming the banjo at FDIM...  More about Patrick here:  http://www.araccma.com/f6awy-p821004 



 

 

Here is another of Patrick's projects.   He completely rebuilt an old Geloso AM transmitter.   Note the  markings on the front panel.  Signed with a dash of F6AWY panache! 
More about this project here:
http://www.araccma.com/emetteur-am-pas-a-pas-avec-f6awy-p820986

Translation tip:  Open these pages in Google Chrome.  Then, simply RIGHT CLICK on the page and select TRANSLATE TO ENGLISH.  


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Arduino Makes Music with Old Floppy Drives

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SolderSmoke Podcast #163 Pete Juliano! Tribal Knowledge Part 3 "Sideband Sidecars"

Crystal Filters built by WA7MLH

SolderSmoke Podcast #163 is available: 

http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke163.mp3

Saturday July 26, 2014

Part III with Pete Juliano:  Tribal Knowledge -- Sideband Sidecars

-- Moxon Update "A Thing of Beauty"
-- Pete is Building Peter Parker's Knobless Wonder
-- Ladder Filters
--Construction Practices for SSB rigs
-- Essential Test Gear
-- Junk Box development and parts storage

Next time:  Tubes, Valves, Termatrons, Firebottles. 

Thanks to Bob Crane and the FDIM musicians for this episode's musical opening. 

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Crazy Joe May Have THE KNACK

http://www.crazyjoe.org/studio.html

Check out Joe's VERY long-running audio studio project.  It appears to be mostly appliance/commercial gear, but look closer and you will discover that most of it is homebrew.


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Homebrew Radio Rock Video! By N6QW

Watch out MTV!   There's a new music channel in town! 
Music and rigs all by Pete Juliano, under the direction of the famed Italian producer/director Giovanni Manzoni.

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Roadkill Violins! LandfillHarmonic

Landfill Harmonic film teaser from Landfill Harmonic on Vimeo.

Wow, this is a really inspiring video about being inventive, overcoming obstacles, using what you find and putting junk to good use.  I thought you guys would like this (ESPECIALLY ROBERTO!).

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"Analog Man" by Joe Walsh

Very cool to have world famous rocker and fellow boatanchor enthusiast Joe Walsh singing about the virtues of analog.
What next?
An ode to 60/40 solder? 
Some troubleshooting blues? 

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Shack Background Music from Pandora Radio

Billy alerted me to Pandora. Very cool. You just give it an indication of the kind of music you'd like to listen to. They do the rest. I started out with Creedance Clearwater Revival, and Pandora proceeded to send me a stream of sort-of similar rock. Streaming audio through the web. And it is apparently all legal (you listen to a commercial every once in a while). This is great for background music in the shack. After all, you can only listen to so much SolderSmoke, and 75 meter SSB chatter is not good for you. I'm not sure if it is available outside the USA. I hope it is.
www,pandora.com

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