Sunday, September 4, 2022

Free Book! "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" by Bill Meara. Free for the Next Five Days

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  From time to time, Amazon lets me make my books available for free on Amazon Kindle.    SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Elect...
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Saturday, September 3, 2022

Where Do You Think This Variable Capacitor Came From? What Piece of Gear Did it Come out of? Is it in the Old Catalogs?

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  In an effort to stop the slaughter of innocent Heath QF-1s (for their very nice variable capacitors), I bought this thing on e-bay.  Here ...
Thursday, September 1, 2022

New Video: Farhan's Presentation on the "Daylight Again" Analog Transceiver

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LOTS of tribal wisdom in this presentation by Farhan VU2ESE.  For more info, go to:  https://www.vu2ese.com/ index.php/2022/08/04/daylight- ...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Old Smoke: SolderSmoke's Early Theme Music from W8MOJ, Boatanchors in South Africa, and Homebrewing in Dubai

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Over on the SoulderSmoke YouTube channel I have been putting up some podcasts from days-gone-by.  Recently they have been from our last day...
Sunday, August 28, 2022

Building a Solid-State "Magic Eye" and Fitting it in the Old Tube's Glass Envelope

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I was feeling kind of bad about my solid-state conversion thoughts.  I had gone so far as thinking about putting an FET and some resistors i...
Saturday, August 27, 2022

Free Book by Bill Meara -- Not About Radio. But it is about family life on a very long trip.

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Free! From time-to-time Amazon Kindle allows me to make this book available FOR FREE. You can get the Kindle version for free until the e...

SDR on a Breadboard -- But Isn't This an Old-Fashioned Fantasy?

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Nice video, but I'm afraid it is a bit of an old-fashioned fantasy.  It would be nice to think that our beloved analog mixers and direct...
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Friday, August 26, 2022

PA3CRX's 6 Meter BITX in an Old CB Case

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Thanks to Rogier PA1ZZ for alerting me to this video and to the PA3CRX YouTube channel.  I like what Chrix did with the old CB transceiver c...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

SolderSmoke Podcast #73 Jan 2, 2008 -- AA1TJ Circuits and Poetry, Mixers, CW, Straight Key Night at WA6ARA, Boatanchors in South Africa with ZS6ADY (Part 1)

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This is the first in a series of four podcast that include Echolink conversations with Andy ZS6ADY about old tube radios (boatanchors) in So...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Solid-Stating an HT-37 VFO -- Advice Needed

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  Original HT-37 VFO Circuit A couple of things before I start:   First, this is not my fault.  The Radio Gods are to blame.  I innocently t...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

SolderSmoke Podcast #156 -- November 4, 2013 -- Interview with Peter Parker VK3YE of Melbourne, Australia

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November 4, 2013 Special hour-long interview with Peter Parker, VK3YE -- Early experiences with radio -- CW -- DSB Gear -- Simple gear, and ...
Monday, August 22, 2022

Mike Caughran KL7R's Last Podcast

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  Mike KL7R (SK) during a visit to the AL7FS shack. This was Mike Caughran KL7R's last podcast. He died in a car accident shortly after...
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