Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Mending vs. Ending -- The Fight Against Planned Obsolescence

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https://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto We don't get a lot of mail from Darwin, Australia, so the message coming in from Phil VK8MC immediately...
Monday, March 29, 2021

"Analog Man in a Digital World" by OM Joe Walsh (music video)

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After seeing my last post about SDR, the dongle, the Android tablet, and the Bluetooth mouse, Bob Keller grew concerned about my, uh, stabil...
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Sunday, March 28, 2021

"The Dish" Turns 60

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  Thanks to Peter VK2EMU for alerting us to this important birthday.   https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-26/parkes-dish-will-assist-first-...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Part of Wright Brothers' Airplane Now On Mars with Ingenuity Helicopter

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  Very cool.  Great idea.  https://phys.org/news/2021-03-wright-brothers-1st-airplane-nasa.html
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Double Sideband Transmitter using Vacuum Tubes -- From Sweden

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Tommy SA2CLC has built a really nice DSB transmitter using Thermatrons.   FB Tommy.  
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Monday, March 22, 2021

My Hodgepodged Morse: Audio Tone into the Mic Jack Creates J2A not A1A. BASTA!

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In SolderSmoke podcast #229 Pete and I were discussing my rather flaky effort to turn the Hodgepodge BITX40 Module into a CW rig by injecti...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

SolderSmoke Podcast #229 -- G2NJ Trophy, SDR, HDR, CW! Mailbag

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Soldersmoke Podcast #229 is available:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke229.mp3 --  G2NJ Trophy is awarded to  Pete Juliano, N6QW.   --  G...
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Friday, March 19, 2021

Hodgepodge: Tablet SDR with a Bluetooth Mouse (video)

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I continue to find things in the shack that I can connect to the Hodgepodge.  Here it's an old Android tablet with a Bluetooth mouse.   ...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

A REALLY Cheap Receiving Rig

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Wow, lots of ingenuity in this 1921 receiver. -- Has anyone actually made a diode out of a light bulb in the way described?  -- The antenna ...
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Monday, March 15, 2021

Aladdin's Lamp == The Vacuum Tube (aka The Thermatron) (Video)

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After our posting of the video about 1957 transistor production, our friend Peter O'Connell VK2EMU asked for some equal time for vacuum ...
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Sunday, March 14, 2021

A Homebrewer

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  That is Homer Price, the lead character in two books by Robert McCloskey, published in 1943 and 1951.   The thing in the valise is Homer...
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Saturday, March 13, 2021

Making Transistors in 1957

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Thanks to Thomas K4SWL for alerting us to this video -- he had it on his excellent  SWLing Post blog .  Many things crossed my mind as I wat...
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