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This is obviously very cool, but looking ahead I think Adam should think about adding one more mixer, changing the bias on the TX amps, and ...

Truly amazing and impressive work.  Thanks to Hack-A-Day for the heads-up https://hackaday.com/2020/11/27/so-close-to-landing-a-model-rocket...

https://hackaday.com/2020/11/25/the-wow-signal-and-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence/#more-448808 This Hack-A-Day article explain...

Really simple, really nice.  I like the innovative way they achieved the RF quadrature:  they did it by splitting and phase-shifting the RF ...

This has been a lot of fun and very educational.   The problem I discovered in the Lafayette HA-600A product detector caused me to take a ne...

  Google led me to VK2FC's amazing site.  I was digging up info on product detectors and I landed on Glen's description of his versi...

  I continue to work on the product detector of my Lafayette HA-600A.   This work has caused me to brush up on my understanding of how mixer...

Pete advised me to try this a week or so ago, but it took me a while to follow through and try it out.   I got the two diode, one transforme...

I was listening to Glenn Hauser's excellent shortwave listening show on WRMI this week, and he mentioned a technique that I had not been...

  Oh man, this doesn't happen every day.  Using my homebrew BITX 40 DIGI-TIA,  I had just finished a great QSO on 40 meters with Greg W8...

Thanks to Peter VK2EMU for this update on the Parkes radio telescope.  Parkes is the subject of our favorite  movie about an antenna:  '...

  As young James Clerk Maxwell used to say, "What's the go of it?"  and "What's the particular go of it?" I stu...