Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Manhattan meets Hyderabad: Pad Pattern for my BITX 20/40

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A rough guide to how I laid out the isolation pads on my BITX 20/40 board.   The copper-clad board is 8 inches x 11 inches (22 cm x 28 c...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Our New Robotic Overlords

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Our book: "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" http://soldersmoke.com/book.htm Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts,...
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Friday, April 25, 2014

Homebrew Blimp with paper-thin Arduino (Printoo)

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More on Printoo (very interesting!): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1030661323/printoo-paper-thin-flexible-arduinotm-compatible-m ...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Hackers Recover 1960's Moon Pictures

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http://www.wired.com/2014/04/lost-lunar-photos-recovered-by-great-feats-of-hackerdom-developed-at-a-mcdonalds/ Thanks to Mark, K6HX, fo...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Pete Juliano's Bilateral Rigs (with videos)

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  Hi Bill,   I was finally getting around to reading one of the recent SPRAT’s and saw a photo of your magnificent BITX17. Congra...
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Monday, April 21, 2014

Clocks, CRTs, HV supplies: Eric has The Knack!

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Nice interview by Jeri Ellsworth.  This fellow definitely seems to have the Knack.  At the end of the video he shows a high voltage suppl...
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Sunday, April 20, 2014

A Worthy Cause: Help Save the ISEE-3 Spacecraft!

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http://www.rockethub.com/projects/42228-isee-3-reboot-project-by-space-college-skycorp-and-spaceref Here is an excerpt from the above w...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

AA1TJ Crosses the Pond with 10 milliwatts

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From a Facebook Post by Mike, AA1TJ: Made 7 contacts with this tiny transceiver on 20m CW today with an RF output power of 10milliWat...
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Monday, April 14, 2014

Bert's Pititico (PY2OHH) Rig (Video)

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Bravo Bert!   http://wf7ihomebrew.wordpress.com/2014/04/13/a-listen-on-40m-with-the-1-transistor-pititico/ Our book: "SolderSmoke...
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Sunday, April 13, 2014

DSB Transceiver with Only 3 Transistors

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Wow.  Looks like something Peter Parker would really like.  This one was sent to me by Stephen, G7VFY.  It comes from Japan: http://www....
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Friday, April 11, 2014

"That 70s Show": Steve "Snort Rosin" Smith Restores a 70's era Tuna Tin 2

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Hi Bill, Your recent stories about your TT-2 and original TT-2 "mojo transfer" prompted me to resurrect my TT-2 'resto...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

PY2OHH's New Super-Minimalist (11 Component!) QRPp Transceiver

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Wow!   Check out the latest rig from PY2OHH, the Wizard of Sao Paulo, http://py2ohh.w2c.com.br/trx/pititico/pititico.html Our book: ...
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