Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Kintsugi -- A Japanese Philosophy for the Owners of Imperfect Rigs

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  On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 4:05 PM Bob Scott wrote: Hi Bill:    After listening to the latest Soldersmoke I thought you might find the Japane...
Monday, August 30, 2021

No More Automatic E-mails from the SolderSmoke Blog

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Blogspot and Feedburner tell me that as of the end of August 2021, they will no longer be sending automatic e-mails to those who have subscr...
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Adding Automatic Gain Control to the Termination Insensitive Amplifier

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  Earlier this month Paul VK3HN had a very interesting blog post about adding Automatic Gain Control to Termination Insensitive Amplifiers ...
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Friday, August 27, 2021

SolderSmoke Podcast #232 -- Mythbuster, Pete's Tube CW Rig, Pete's DC RX and Simple SSB Rig, NanoVNA and TinySA, Very FB Mailbag

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SolderSmoke Podcast #232 is available -- Crank it in Robert! http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke232.mp3 Featuring a guitar intro by Pete ...
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Thursday, August 26, 2021

Making a BIG Transformer from Scratch -- Video

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Wow.  Watch this young guy make something very useful.  This video reminded me of the 16 de Marzo neighborhood in Santo Domingo, where I was...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Video: E. Howard Armstrong and Early Radio

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This is a really wonderful video. It might seem slow to those accustomed to faster-paced YouTube videos, but the information content is very...
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Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Mythbuster Video #17 Boxing it Up, Tuning Filters, Tapping a Heat Sink, QRO Dreams....

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I made a cabinet out of scrap packing material. I show how I tune LC filters by squeezing the turns on toroidal inductors. I tap a heatsi...
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Sunday, August 22, 2021

Joe Galeski's 1960 "IMP" 3 -Tube Filter SSB Transmitter, and the Spirit of SSB Homebrew

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Here is another important bit of SSB history.  In  May 1960, Joe Galeski W4IMP published an article in QST describing his super-simple SSB t...
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Saturday, August 21, 2021

W2EWL's "Cheap and Easy SSB" Rig -- And The LSB/USB Convention Myth

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In March 1956 Tony Vitale published in QST an article about a "Cheap and Easy" SSB transmitter that he had built around the VFO i...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Time Crystals, and Breadboarding in Cyprus in the 4th Dimension

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  We are always impressed by the way in which SolderSmoke listeners stay on the cutting edge (sometimes OVER the edge!) of modern technology...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Todd K7TFC on Pessimism, Optimism, and Homebrew Radio

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In response to my blog post about Rob Sherwood, Todd K7TFC sent this very thoughtful comment.  It is so good that I wanted to put it up as ...
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Sunday, August 15, 2021

Sam KD2ENL's Homebrew Integrated Circuit Chips

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Sam Zeloof KD2ENL does some really inspirational work on the homebrewing of IC chips.  We first posted about this back in 2018, when Sam was...
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