Sunday, July 31, 2016

W9ZN's CW Warm-up: "Ben's Best Bent Feet"

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I happened to come across this fellow's signal on 40 a week or so ago.  His warm up routine really had me scratching my head.   I'...
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Saturday, July 30, 2016

Pilgrim's Progress: A Peregrino Rig Concealed in a Book

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On the G-QRP list guys have been talking about the Peregrino .  This is a nice little homebrew rig out of Spain.  Peregrino = Pilgrim and...
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Thursday, July 28, 2016

Juliano Blues

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Pete swears the rigs work better with this color.  We are adding Sherwin Williams "Juliano Blue" paint to our investment m...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

"The Radio Times"

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Wonderful stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Times
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Which way does current REALLY flow?

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I've talked on the podcast about launching a worldwide campaign to require the reversal of ALL those little arrows on the symbols for ...
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Monday, July 25, 2016

Shotwell had the Knack (Car Knack), and so does Jay Leno

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I've joked about homebrew cars -- we have a bumper sticker on Café Press that says "My Other Car Was Homebrewed From Junkbox Part...
Sunday, July 24, 2016

Cool, Blue, and Homebrew! Pete Juliano's Tiny SSB Rig

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Blue is the new Black!  I think some smart paint manufacturer should put a trademark on "Juliano Blue." Check out Pete's ...
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Saturday, July 23, 2016

Building LC Oscillators

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Yesterday I came across this very nice video -- I thought you guys would like it.  2E0VIR obviously has The Knack! I'm building a ve...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

CBLA Dallas Division: Multiple Mighty Mites in the Lonestar State

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Bill: Just thought you would like to know that I am a new member of the color burst army.  I am also a member of the Dallas Makerspace ...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

In Search of the Elusive Imperial Whitworth

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This beautiful old variable capacitor came out of a 1930's British regen receiver that I picked up years ago at the Kempton ...
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Monday, July 18, 2016

Building a VFO. A BIG VFO. IF options?

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Once again, The Radio Gods have Spoken (TRGHS).  An off-hand comment at the Manassas Hamfest, a bit of encouragement from Pete Juliano,...
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Sunday, July 17, 2016

HB2HB QSO with N6ORS -- MIN-X to BITX

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That's Keith N6ORS's MIN-X transceiver.  Keith explains that it has circuitry from the BITX, the Minima and even from the ZL2BMI D...