Saturday, July 31, 2021

Mythbuster Video #10 -- A Front Panel for an Al Fresco Rig

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Friday, July 30, 2021

Video: Rob Sherwood NC0B on Transceiver (and Especially Transmitter) Performance

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  Rob Sherwood NC0B is one of the real authorities on receiver performance.  Many of us have relied on his ratings of commercial receivers f...
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Thursday, July 29, 2021

Video: Introduction to the TinySA Spectrum Analyzer

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The TinySA has some very cool capabilities, and this short intro video provides a good sense of what it can do.   I am learning how to use t...
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Wednesday, July 28, 2021

50 Shades of Homebrew? PH2LB's Shack and NanoVNA Adapters

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  That would have been a very different movie.   And I don't think the box office results would have been favorable.   That's PH2LB...
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Tuesday, July 27, 2021

QST Recognized Error on Sideband Inversion, But Continued to Make the Same Mistake

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  I don't really know if this is good news or bad news.  It's good that in November 1985 they recognized the error, but then they al...
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Monday, July 26, 2021

QST Repeatedly Got Sideband Inversion Wrong

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It kind of pains me to do this. These articles are from a long time ago, and the author is an esteemed  Silent Key,  but the myth about the ...
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Sunday, July 25, 2021

Possible Victory for Frank Jones and the FMLA? Could We Get the 5 Meter Band Back?

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  EI7GL reports some very interesting IARU activity that could possibly result in the 5 Meter band coming back to amateur radio use:   ...
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Saturday, July 24, 2021

Mr. Carlson's New Lab. And his Amazing Tek Collection

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Thursday, July 22, 2021

The Unicorn! A 75 LSB /20 USB Receiver (That Can't Work)

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  Don't get me wrong -- I'm a huge fan of Doug DeMaw.  His books and articles are a treasure trove for ham radio homebrewers.  Also,...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Ganymede and Jupiter as seen by Juno

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But remember the warning: "All these worlds are yours, except Europa.  Attempt no landing there." 
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Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Mythbuster Videos 8 and 9 -- The Old Military Radio Net plus "Zero Beat and The Vertical Skirts"

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I like to listen to the Old Military Radio Net on Saturday mornings. This week I was listening with the Mythbuster receiver. The AM carrie...
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Monday, July 19, 2021

Michael Newton Hopkins, AB5L, Author of the FMLA series

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Better than anyone else ever has, Michael Hopkins, in his fictional series about Frank Jones and the Five Meter Liberation Army , captures t...
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