Friday, April 30, 2021

Trying to Repair Some Old Gear, He Got Hit with a Dose of LSD!

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Oh no, here's something else for us to worry about when working on old gear.  As if the treat of electrocution or radioactive poisoning ...
Saturday, April 24, 2021

Coming Soon! An N6QW Action Figure!

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  A few quick mods and Bob will be our uncle!   (Pete will be our Fauci!)  Think of the many possible accessories:   A soldering iron!  A be...
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It's an INVESTMENT!

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  Exactly what we've been saying about Drake 2-Bs and copies of SSDRA!  
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Saturday, April 17, 2021

Argentine SSB (BLU) Homebrew from Guillermo LW3DYL

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Really nice work.  BLU is Spanish for SSB.  (Juliano BLU?) But I think Guillermo needs to build ONE MORE BOARD!  A VFO or a VXO.  Analog. To...
Friday, April 16, 2021

Homebrew Lives! TWENTY N6QW Simple SSB Transceivers Under Construction in Northern Virginia

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IF strip by Don KM4UDX This has to be one of the most successful of SSB group-build projects.  Dean KK4DAS has been leading 20 members of th...

What Kind of Car Would Have this Plate?

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  We are proud to say that the owner is a SolderSmoke listener.  Can you figure out what kind of car he is driving?  (See comments for answe...
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021

For Your Vacuum Tubes: Isotopic Ionization Sources from U.S. Radium

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One or two podcasts ago I mentioned radium in regulator tubes.  As I predicted, this provoked a number of comments about how silly it is to ...
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Sunday, April 11, 2021

RIP Isamu Akasaki -- Shared Nobel Prize for LED -- Analog Guy

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From the obituary in the Washington Post:  In addition to the Nobel Prize, Dr. Akasaki’s honors included a   2009 Kyoto Prize   — Japan’s hi...
Thursday, April 8, 2021

N6QW On 40 Meters with a Civil Air Patrol Dentron Scout -- WYKSYCDS

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  Pete is in the air with his Dentron Scout.   Check it out:  http://n6qw.blogspot.com/2021/04/2021-conversion-of-dentron-hf-scout-is.html W...
Wednesday, April 7, 2021

"The Perfect Trap for the Engineering Mind" -- Leo Fernekes' Stirling Engine

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I did a post about Leo back in August:  https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2020/08/great-video-on-pc-board-techniques-with.html Although it is...
Monday, April 5, 2021

Shortwave Event: Brother Stair is Dead

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https://www.live5news.com/2021/04/04/colleton-county-pastor-ralph-stair-dies/?fbclid=IwAR2g607BgdaxodCVIjQjdOYg_O-CHyr-LYFpKjbCyRmyTbYcGaiei...
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Sunday, April 4, 2021

A Satellite Ground Station (Receiver) Made from Junk

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Very cool.  This guy (who brew up on an island in Alaska) really knows how to use aluminum tape and the junk that fills most workshops. I li...