Thursday, February 5, 2015

K8GZ's Towering Tea Tin Ohio Mighty Mite

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Here is a very innovative approach to the Mighty Mite.  The compression cap atop the coil form gives it a towering appearance.  Pete ...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Mama Mia! N2HTT's Regen Receiver (Video)

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I am fairly certain that Pete Juliano will take pride in N2HTT's success on this project, and will attempt to attribute it, in part, t...
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Monday, February 2, 2015

Video of Colin's First Contact with his Homebrew Scratch-built BITX20

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I love this video.  Colin finished his BITX a week or so ago and has been waiting for an opportunity to test it.  Over the weekend he brav...
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Brian's Mighty Mite

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Bill, All the parts finally arrived from China so the MMM lives :) Good to finally join the CBLA!! It made for a very enjoyable Saturday...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

SolderSmoke #171 DC RX in QQ, Power Supplies, Small Screens, 12 Buck Counters, HW8 Error?, KX3 RX

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SolderSmoke Podcast #171 is available:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke171.mp3 Bench Report:  Pete's Small Screens (in Color...
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15% Off on SolderSmoke and other books at Lulu This Weekend

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All three of my books are here:   http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/soldersmoke Our book: "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wi...
Friday, January 30, 2015

More Glowing Numerals! BIG! BLUE! $13!

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Even though my pencil and graph paper frequency readout for the BITX rigs has its own undeniable charm, this little device could get me...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Beagle 2 Found On Mars

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I was one of the millions of people who woke up that Christmas morning in 2003  thinking not of Santa Claus but of Colin Pillinger's ...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Back Into the Digital Morass

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Using a very nice M0XPD AD9860 shield from Kanga-UK and software by Richard AD7C I put together another little DDS VFO.  This one went...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

The Battery That's Been Working for 175 Years

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In case you missed this.  Makes you think, doesn't it?  I'm thinking of a QRPp QRSS transmitter that would just keep on going.  B...
Monday, January 26, 2015

New Analog Frequency Readout for BITX17 VXO

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I've been getting tired of being in the dark about the frequency on which my BITX17 was operating.  So I pulled out some graph paper,...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Jailed for The Knack: Gerry Wells, Homebrew Hero

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Thanks to Thomas of the "SWLing Post" for alerting us to the story of UK radio legend Gerry Wells. As Thomas said in his post, ...
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