Saturday, October 31, 2020

SolderSmoke Podcast #226 The U.S. Election, Solar Cycle, uSDX, Hermes, HP8640B, SGC 600 Sig Gen, HA-600A, Mailbag

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SolderSmoke Podcast # 226   http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke226.mp3 ---------------------------------- About the U.S. election -----------...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

1962 Ad Describes Origins of the Drake 2-B

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Monday, October 26, 2020

VK3YE: Solving the Direct Conversion RX -- Double Sideband TX Incompatibility Problem

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Peter:   You have long been one of the leading gurus on DSB.  I remember absorbing all the info I could from your website when I was getting...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

Kludges in SPAAAAACE!

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Saturday, October 24, 2020

On the Cover of The Rolling Stone (Almost) -- Jac Holzman, Elektra Records, and Ham Radio

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  Thanks to Stephen VK2BLQ for alerting us to this.  That is Jac Holzman of Elektra Records fame, pictured in a recent article in Rolling St...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Listening in on the Deep Space Network

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  Not long ago we took the DISH satellite antenna off our roof.   For a while I resisted pleas to put the big thing on the curb for pickup. ...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Too Simple? Deficiency of the Lafayette HA-600A Product Detector?

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  I've been having a lot of fun with the Lafayette HA-600A receiver that I picked up earlier this month.  Adding to the mirth, I noticed...
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Monday, October 12, 2020

Quino, The Creator of Mafalda ("BASTA!") RIP

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Putting "Basta" in the SolderSmoke search box yields many blog posts.  The cry of ENOUGH! from six year-old Mafalda has been part ...
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Sunday, October 11, 2020

Ryan Flowers' Admirable Approach to the BITX40 Module

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  We must remember that Farhan designed the BITX transceivers -- and especially the BITX40 Module -- in the hope that these rigs would encou...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

Chip Replaced, GSC 6000 Counter Fixed

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  This thing has been half-broken for a long time.  I needed to get the input for 40 MHz - 650 MHz working    I got the a replacement SP8630...
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Friday, October 9, 2020

The Bitsy -- Homebrew Double Sideband from Scotland

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  This is such a beautiful project:  it involves DSB, homebrew, troubleshooting, George Dobbs, SSDRA, J310s, a box kite,  and ham radio nost...
Thursday, October 8, 2020

HA-600A Gets a New Coat of Paint -- After Almost 50 years!

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  The HA-600A that I picked up last week was looking kind of sorry.  There was a lot of rust on the cabinet.  Below is the before picture.  ...
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