Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Mike WU2D Looks at the "Dream" SW Receivers of the 1960s and 70s (Video)

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Wow, I really liked Mike's walk down memory lane. I saw several of my own dream receivers:  S-38E.  Indeed, this little monster did add ...
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Monday, March 28, 2022

Vienna Wireless Winterfest Hamfest 2022

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After a two-year pandemic hiatus, yesterday the Vienna (Virginia) Wireless Society's annual "Winterfest" hamfest was back.  An...
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Saturday, March 26, 2022

Getting More Rigorous About Receiver Design (Video)

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As I finished up the receiver on my 17-12 SSB transceiver, I started to wonder -- how good is it?   Sure, I could hear stations on both band...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2022

First Ever Contact on 12 Meters: Homebrew, QRP, SSB, DX (Video)

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I've recently finished most of the circuitry on the 17-12 meter dual band SSB transceiver. I have had contacts with it on 17 meters, bu...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Receiver Dynamics -- How Good is my Receiver?

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OK , so I've finished building my new 17-12 Dual Band SSB Transceiver.  I am now testing it out on both bands.   A big question I have i...
Sunday, March 20, 2022

17 - 12 Dual Band SSB Transceiver On-The-Air

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  It is still completely al-fresco, with all the guts exposed, but I got it on the air this morning.  I was 17, running it through my CCI  ....
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Flick Lives -- More from a Great Web Site about "Jean Shepherd"

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Jim Clavin has some really great stuff on his FlickLives website:  http://www.flicklives.com/index.php?pg=318 Much of this stuff I had never...
Friday, March 18, 2022

Help! Can You Write the Software to Control the MAX2870 Board?

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  It is not every day that you get the chance to help a master homebrewer like Pete Juliano N6QW.  But today is just such a day.   Pete asks...
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Thursday, March 17, 2022

Colin M1BUU's Homebrew Manhattan SST

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  Wow, especially on St. Patrick's day I think it is appropriate to say " 'tis a thing of beauty. " Colin did a great job ...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Pete N6QW Looks at Tapped Capacitance Impedance Matching

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  For some reason we are more accustomed to impedance matching using tapped coils than we are with the use of tapped capacitors.   This is t...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022

VK2BLQ's Two-Tube Regen with a SolderSmoke Dial

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  Thanks to Peter Marks VK3TPM ("a bloke with too many hobbies") for alerting us to this magnificent homebrew receiver with the es...
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Monday, March 14, 2022

"Fashion" for Fans of LC Analog VFOs

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