Wednesday, June 30, 2021

10 Pole Crystal Filter Passband as Seen in Antuino and NanoVNA

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I continue to work on the "Mythbuster" rig,  but I am taking it slow, trying to learn something from each stage.  I'm especial...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Jack NG2E's Pebble Crusher

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  Check out NG2E's Pebble Crusher homebrew transmitter.  Doug DeMaw would be enormously pleased.    Jack will no-doubt have this 250 mW ...
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Saturday, June 26, 2021

SolderSmoke Podcast #231 -- Travel, SST, Mythbusting, Filters, TIAS, NanoVNAs, DC RX in SPRAT, Drake A Line, Spillsbury, STICKERS! Mailbag

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SolderSmoke # 231 is available:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke231.mp3 Annual Field Day Special Edition Travelogue:   To the Dominican R...
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Thursday, June 24, 2021

Radio Netherlands -- Bonaire Relay Station

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Thanks to Rogier KJ6ETL, PA1ZZ for sharing this video with us (that's Rogier on the Vespa).  I wonder what they did with the towers and ...
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Friday, June 18, 2021

Jean Shepherd on CW, and Strange Propagation -- QRP!

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From 1965.  Great CW stories from Shep.  QRP!  Shep running 2 watts on 20 CW, working DX.  He discusses shortwave listening,  and predicted ...
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Thursday, June 17, 2021

The Stubborn Myth about USB and LSB

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It  has been repeated so often and for so long that many of us have come to believe it.  I myself believed it for a while.   Like many myths...
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Hi Def 360 Degree Panorama from the Mars Perseverance Rover

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Put this on full screen view and set for max Hi Def presentation.  You can stop the video around the 1:10 mark, but then still use your mous...
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Monday, June 14, 2021

M0NTV's Latest FB SSB Transceiver

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Wow, Nick has a really wonderful rig and has made this great video to explain it.  Elements that I really liked:  -- The simple mic and comp...

Santo Domingo Shack on 12th Floor Balcony -- SST QRP CW

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June 2021.  We were in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.  At this point we were in a 12th floor apartment in the center of the city.  I wou...
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Saturday, June 12, 2021

Good News! The Termination Event May Be Coming Soon! Solar Cycle 25 Could Rival Cycle 19!

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Wow.  Cycle 25 might be as good or better than Cycle 19.  Pete cut his radio teeth on Cycle 19.  I was born during that cycle.  Let's ho...
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Thursday, June 10, 2021

Tom's Receiver -- A 20 Meter Superhet Built From the Junkbox

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Wow, this is really an amazing project.  It is so good that I'd like to believe that it is really "all our fault," but the cre...
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Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Pete's Drakes

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Pete Juliano N6QW has on his blog two very nice videos about the Drake A-line.   As long-standing fanatical fan of the Drake 2-B, I was stru...