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My effort to bring my Azorean 17 meter DSB rig back to life continues. This is proving to be harder than I thought. I'm still taming my...

I'm not sure what I would do with an Arduino, but articles like this definitely make me want one! Here's one passage: To make the ...

Steve "Snort Rosin" Smith has been keeping me on the side of the angels (and the FCC regs) in the area of harmonic filtering. Tod...

When I look in the mirror and I see a haunted, obsessed look in my eyes. My wife senses that there is something wrong in the ham shack. Sh...

Over the weekend I took a break from JBOT amplifiers and did something I've been meaning to do for a long time: solar astronomy. I pu...

Paul, W2IOG, sent a nice e-mail about a very early use of the term "The Knack": 1874 by Jules Verne. (What word did he use in F...

You can see here why I had so much fun in the summer of 2001 with my Azorean Homebrew QRP DSB rig. And why I am now re-CYCLING (get it?) an...

I 've been remiss in posting to the blog, but I have a good excuse: I've been melting solder. I have working on the installation o...

Steve "Snort Rosin" Smith sent us this, noting that "Tony Sale definitely had The Knack." As the Brits would say, ...

A few listeners sent this in. Thanks! Note the mention of AA1TJ's CFL light bulb rig! http://www.edn.com/article/519742-Ham_radio_in_t...

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