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Thanks to Stephen for alerting me to the homebrew page of Graham G4UEK: http://www.sandrock.org.uk/radiostuff/Rigs.htm I really lik...

Ben KD9JNQ is the first of the Colorburst Liberation Army (CLA) recruits to get his Michigan Mighty Mite to oscillate.  So he has been pr...

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If you look closely, just in front of my keyboard you can see the Michigan Mighty Mite that I rebuilt this morning (scroll down to see the...

So far we've sent out 9 of these color burst 3.579 MHz crystals.   It occurred to me that I should make sure these particular roc...

Wow, quite a bit of progress at M1BUU since our last look (see below).  I must admit, that Arduino DDS board looks quite nice sittin...

We have been distributing quite a few 3.579 MHz crystals, but until today we hadn't seen a single new Michigan Mighty Mite.   I com...

New recruits have been signing up for the Color Burst Liberation Army.   We have been sending out many more 3.579 MHz crystals. Pete Juli...

Note the discrete BJT transistor T-shirt.  Note the haunted, obsessed look in his eyes.  This fellow is building a computer out of disc...

SolderSmoke Podcast #168 is available.  22 November 2014  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke168.mp3 The benefits of software inefficie...

Beautiful use of a cigar box by Ben, KK6FUT.   Ben is working in close proximity to Pete N6QW and has obviously fallen under the influenc...

We got some questions on this and Pete was kind enough to write up some notes on the topic.  We may talk more about this during the next p...