Wednesday, July 31, 2019

LightSail 2 Rides to a Higher Orbit, Propelled by Photons from the Sun

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Success!  Congratulations to the Planetary Society.  Amazing achievement.   http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/lightsail-2-succe...

Pete N6QW's Three Dozen (AT LEAST THREE DOZEN!) Homebrew Rigs

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In our last podcast I was saying how Pete's many, many analog homebrew transceivers have earned him the right to shift into the d...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

N8NM's Homebrew Stereo

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h ttps://n8nmsteve.blogspot.com/2019/07/a-homebrew-stereo-for-shack.html Excellent work Steve.   You are right -- lugging something...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Walter KA4KXX Operates his FB Al-Fresco HB Scratch-Built BITX 75 (Video)

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Dear Bill N2CQR: For your amusement, the attached video (from 2:20 - 3:40) shows me operating portable at a tailgate event using my s...
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Thursday, July 25, 2019

Fish Soup 10 QRP Transceiver in Action on 40

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I took this quick video during a QSO on July 20, 2019 with Ed K3VA in Philadelphia on 40 meters.  Note: Plenty of of audio from the Herrin...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Drake 2-B "The most talked about HAM RECEIVER"

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Thanks to K9YA
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Light Sail 2 Successfully Deploys Its Solar Sail

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Congratulations to the Planetary Society.  https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/23/the-planetary-societys-crowdfunded-lightsail-2-deplo...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Making Fish Soup from Herring and Tuna (How to Build a Fish Soup 10 Transceiver)

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Just in case some other fanatic someday thinks about trying to turn a Herring Aid 5 and a Tuna Tin 2 into a Fish Soup 10. This will als...
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Saturday, July 20, 2019

A Frequency Readout for the Fish Soup 10 (with cool BLUE numerals)

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Note the cool BLUE numerals.  They represent 7040, 7050, 7060, 7070.  The little black "pointer" is from a power cord wall faste...
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From Bill's Apollo 11 Scrapbook

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From the Apollo 11 scrapbook I made back in '69. I got the date for the moonwalk wrong. But hey, I was only 10 years old.
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Thursday, July 18, 2019

Video of Fish Soup 10 QSO (from N3MLB)

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So cool.  During our QSO on 40 Meter CW today, N3MLB recorded it and put it on YouTube.  This is what my 500 milliwatt Fish Soup 10 rig so...
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Monday, July 15, 2019

The "Fish Soup 10" Homebrew QRP CW Transceiver

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The box with the two grey knobs on the left is the Herring Aid 5, the receiver that took me 38 years to complete. The box on the right ...
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