Sunday, February 28, 2021

Putting the Quarantine Hodgepodge Rig on CW (Video)

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Putting this rig on CW posed a real Hodgepodge challenge: What did I have laying around that would let me do this? Then I remembered: Year...
Saturday, February 27, 2021

Jean Shepherd Goes to a Hamfest -- And Much More

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Here is something nice to listen to in your shack...   I hadn't heard this one before.  It is about Shep's teenage trip to a hamfest...
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Update from the Wizard of Wimbledon -- "Always listen to Pete"

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In a recent podcast, Pete mentioned that Leo Sampson (the young Brit who is rebuilding the sailing  yacht "Tally Ho" ) should seal...
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Friday, February 26, 2021

EI7CLB's Ladybird Receiver (George Dobbs Design), and Voice over the Internet

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  I suggested that Tryg once again gather the parts to build George Dobbs's Ladybird receiver.  He should use the same wooden base.  Tha...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Quarantine Hodgepodge Rig -- Part 1 (Video)

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More videos to follow.  I have added features, and a transmission mode.  Stay tuned.  
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Awesome Video of Perseverance's Landing on Mars

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When we watched the landing on February 18, Elisa kind of complained that they were using simulations -- like the rest of us, she has come t...
Monday, February 22, 2021

LA6NCA's German Military WWII Receivers, and a Luftwaffe Receiver with FAST QSY

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Discussions of old military radio gear are dominated by talk of U.S. radios.   Yesterday in the comments section of the SWLing Post I found...
Sunday, February 21, 2021

Bootleggers! Radio Criminality -- Some Jean Shepherd Stories

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Thanks to Adam N0ZIB who alerted me to Shep's Cincinnati story about the stolen AM broadcast station.  I then found another YouTube vide...
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Perseverance gets to Mars with Parachute and Sky Crane

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  Perseverance under parachute canopy Perseverance hanging from rocket-powered Sky Crane.   We had another picture of a spacecraft parachuti...
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Saturday, February 20, 2021

A Step Closer to the Elser-Mathes Cup? Ham Receives Signals from Mars

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  That is the antenna that Scott Tilley VE7TIL  used to receive signals from the Chinese spacecraft Tianwen-1 in orbit of Mars.  In a recent...
Friday, February 19, 2021

A Problem with the San Jian PLJ6-LED Counter

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I had hoped to use this handy and cheap little frequency counter to add some glowing Juliano Blue to the frequency readout on my Quarantine ...
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James West, Inventor of the Electret Mic, has THE KNACK

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  James West (r) with Gerhard Sessler (l)  Bell Labs 1976 https://hackaday.com/2021/02/17/james-west-began-40-years-at-bell-labs-with-world-...