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Thanks to the manual provided by Jim and the HV test gear provided by Alan Wolke, I was able to finish the troubleshoot on the broken Tek 4...

Oh how I love the sound of a newly built receiver!  I'm sitting here listening to G0MJS on 17 meters.  Lots of other stations from acros...

Paul, M0XPD, has what I'm sure is a wonderful article on a simple microcontroller-based rig in the current issue of our beloved SPRAT...

Having concluded that I was significantly short on overall receiver gain, I went in yesterday and changed my AF amp from a 40db direct-coupl...

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With the exception of the PA, all of the stages of my BITX 17 are built.  Over the weekend I put in the DC wiring for the receiver and t...

Big progress on the BITX:  All the bidirectional amp stages are done.   A bag of 20 5 MHz crystals arrived from Mouser today.  I put one ...

The TEK 465 'scope is as they'd say back in the Bronx "a piece of work."  It has real character.  Perhaps a bit too muc...

"How does a student from a country in which a third of the population is nomadic, living in round white felt tents called gers on the v...

As you can see (above) I've made lots of progress on the BITX-17.  Going counter-clockwise from the lower right, you can see the mic ...

So, having given up on the VFO,  this week I built a VXO.  The IF in my W4OP-built Barbones Superhet is at 5 MHz.   That receiver has a V...

NASA launched a mission to the moon last night.  The rocket went out of Wallops Island, Virginia and was visible from Washington D.C.   I ...