Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Alan Wolke in the Dinosaur Den (Video)

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Very cool.  But it makes me sad that my Tek 465 broke (and I can't fix it!).
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Jac's Homebrew Receiver (video)

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  Jac (KA1WI) and I spoke on 40 meters on June 29th.  I told him about the BITX -- he said he liked the idea of building something and p...
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Monday, September 28, 2015

First Ever SSB Homebrew to Homebrew Contact by N2CQR. With...

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2322 miles.  3737 kilometers Pete Juliano and I were talking on Skype yesterday evening.  He was regaling me with tales of the wonders...
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Sunday, September 27, 2015

Listen to Pete Juliano's Interview on "QSO Today"

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http://www.qsotoday.com/podcasts/n6qw
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Saturday, September 26, 2015

Pete Experiences the Joy of Rotation

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Read all about it (and see the videos):  http://n6qw.blogspot.com/ Congratulations Pete!
Friday, September 25, 2015

Civility, Ham Radio, King Hussein, and the International Brotherhood

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Hi Bill, Interested to hear you talking about civility ... My introduction to amateur radio was via a Heathkit GR 64 and Roy, G3PMX. Whe...
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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Mighty Mite with Homebrew Capacitor Made from Two Cans (video)

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Paul Hodges, KA5WPL, didn't have the variable capacitor called for by the Michigan Mighty Mite schematic.  So in the true spirit of th...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Listening to Chinese Satellites with my Drake 2-B

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On September 22, 2015 at around 1120 UTC I was able to hear the CW beacons from the fleet of new amateur radio satellites put into orbit ...
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Monday, September 21, 2015

China Puts NINE Amateur Satellites in Orbit

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    Big news!  http://www.arrl.org/news/china-successfully-launches-nine-amateur-radio-satellites and http://amsat-uk.org/t...
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Saturday, September 19, 2015

SolderSmoke Podcast #180 Pete's Beam, Simple-ceiver, 2-B, Noodling, Homebrew and SDR?, "The Martian", Mailbag

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SolderSmoke Podcast #180 is available: http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke180.mp3 19 September 2015 PROJECT REPORT: Pete's Ante...
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Thursday, September 17, 2015

Visualizing Harmonics and Square Waves

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Very illuminating.  Very cool.   We want more!  Show us how a mixer works!  From: http://hackaday.com/2015/09/17/visualizing-the-fouri...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

AA7EE's Beautiful Sproutie MK II

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  This is almost too much.  Sensory overload is a real risk here.  Go check out AA7EE's amazingly beautiful regen receiver .  On ...