Showing posts with label test gear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label test gear. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Clip Leads Made with FAKE WIRE! Buy Good Ones from PARTS CANDY!

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We don't see many videos about clip leads,  but this one fits in well with our esoteric subject matter.  Carlos of Parts Candy (our spon...
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Friday, November 8, 2024

Using a Photomultiplier THERMATRON to Detect Single Photons

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I've been a fan of Jeroen's YouTube channel for a while now.  He has a very nice approach, combining theoretical knowlege with pract...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Bill N2CQR Builds Yet Another Mythbuster Transceiver

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  This one is for 20 meters (no need for 75) and will go to the Dominican Republic. 6 crystal filter at 5.2 MHz. VFO from old Yaesu FT-101 ...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Sherwood: "It's Time to Clean Up our Transmitters"

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  http://nc0b.com/qst-article/NC0B-QST-Nov-2019.pdf As an analog, HDR, discrete component, radical homebrew fundamentalist, obviously I have...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024

A Paraset and the Heathkit SG-6 Signal Generator (Video)

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Mike WU2D put out this nice video (above) about whether or not he should part out his Heath SG-6 signal generator, using the parts in a Para...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

ANOTHER Great Workshop

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As I get ready to build the SolderSmoke Shack South, the Radio Gods (well at least YouTube) keep sending me these workshop videos.  Today...
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Monday, June 24, 2024

Some Really Amazing Test Gear

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Wow. Really great test gear, and an amazing parts collection.   This guy even gets a "nice workshop" comment from Mr. Carlson.   P...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Why we have "BW Limit" Switches on our Oscilloscopes

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Dean KK4DAS asked me why we have these switches on our 'scopes.  I didn't know.  Dean asked Alan Wolke W2AEW.  Alan knew:  Alan Wolk...
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Monday, March 11, 2024

Radio Items Picked-up at VWS Winterfest 2024 Hamfest

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As always, click on image for a better view Above you can see what I picked up at the Vienna Wireless Society's 2024 Winterfest Hamfest....
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Friday, November 10, 2023

SolderSmoke Podcast #249 -- Travel, Pete's 6BA6 rig, Books!, VFOs, SDR, Computers, Spectrum Analysers, Transistor Man! MAILBAG

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New VFO for 15-10 Transceiver Schematic below SolderSmoke Podcast #249 is available:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke249.mp3 There is als...
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Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Another Evaluation of the TinySA Ultra (with Teardown) (Video)

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More info on using the TinySA Ultra.  -- Makes me wonder if it makes sense for me NOT to enable Ultra mode now.  I am not going into the UHF...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The TinySA Ultra Spectrum Analyser (video)

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I got mine this week, and I've been playing with it.  When I spoke to Dean KK4DAS, I asked what he thought the first thing I did with it...
Monday, September 25, 2023

Crushing Spurs with Better Bandpass Filters

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PA3AKE's passband (on screen) an mine (on NanoVNA)  While I was away in the Dominican Republic (3-9 August 2023),  I was thinking about ...
Friday, July 28, 2023

Phase Noise and the Radio Amateur

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A weak signal disappears in the phase noise of the stronger signal. The March 1988 QST provides a relatively clear explanation of what phase...
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Thursday, July 6, 2023

The TEK 465 'Scope Used to Create Pong and the Apple II

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Wow, this is almost enough to make me take another shot at repairing my TEK 465.    
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Friday, June 23, 2023

Part III: Curious Marc Repairs an All-Discrete Freq Counter: DO NOT ATTEMPT REPAIR OF CAVITY RESONATOR

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I love all the "DO NOT ATTEMPT" warnings.  Wow, even HP got so skittish about this stuff.  Marc has a great sense of humor and not...
Monday, June 19, 2023

CuriousMarc Repairs an old DISCRETE COMPONENT HP Frequency Counter

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I really liked this repair video from CuriousMarc (aka AJ6JV).  This counter pre-dates the use of integrated circuits -- it is all discrete ...
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Monday, May 1, 2023

Apex Surplus in Los Angeles

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The Polaroid camera for the Tek 'scope was pretty cool.  And the comments about the Simpson 260 made me feel good about finding one at a...
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Monday, March 20, 2023

Winterfest Loot: Who Can ID the Homebrew Receiver?

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First a big congratulations to the Vienna Wireless Society and its President, Dean KK4DAS.  In spite of low temperatures that made the Winte...
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

SolderSmoke Podcast #244 PETE IS BACK! TR-7, CK722, BFR106, HP8640B, High-School Receiver, 10 Min TX, MAILBAG

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SolderSmoke Podcast #244 Is available: http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke244.mp3 Video version at: (118) SolderSmoke - YouTube HE’S BACK! ...
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