Sunday, December 31, 2023

South African Homebrew: ZS4L's "Griffin" 40 Meter SSB Transceiver

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  That's William, now ZL4L, and his homebrew 40 meter SSB transceiver.  He has given the rig a wonderful name from Greek mythology:  The...
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Friday, December 29, 2023

7J6CBQ on Okinawa -- And a Translation of a Science Fiction Novel about Ham Radio in China

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  The article about Sergeant Malik Pugh USMC on Okinawa brought back memories from the 1990s. David Cowhig was 73 Magazine's Hambassado...
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Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Around the World Twice (and maybe more) on 15 meters

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  John EI7GL has a great blog post about some experiments recently done by Salvador EA5Y.  Salvador was aiming his 4 element yagi in one dir...
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Tuesday, December 26, 2023

A Marine's Home Workshop on Okinawa

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  Sergeant Malik Pugh recently won the Navy-Marine Corps Achievement Medal for stepping forward and 3D printing a part that was needed to pu...
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Sunday, December 24, 2023

A Nice Searchable Compilation of "Hot Iron" Issues

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Tom K4ZAD writes:  Bill, This might make good copy for the SolderSmoke Daily News:       https://www.w4npn.net/hot-iron -searchable-compilat...
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Saturday, December 23, 2023

1000 Mile QSO with KC5U using Modified CB Rigs (video)

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Eldon KC5U saw my blog posts about Jerry K5JC’s mods to the PLL02 CB rigs. Here is the mod: http://www.jcoffman.net/WB5RUA/10_meter_AM_conv...
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Friday, December 22, 2023

The New Display: The PHOLED

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  At first I thought, "faux-OLED"?    Then I thought, maybe an OLED from Vietnam (like the delicious soup)?  No, that was not it. ...
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Thursday, December 21, 2023

Sci-Fi Series with an Apollo-era Vibe

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Kind of fun.  The Apollo-era and Saturn V stuff bring back memories of 1969 and all that. It is a series that you can watch on Apple TV.  He...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Computer Science is DOOMED Because Humans are Bad at Programming (Video)

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Wow, this video of Dr. Matt Welsh's presentation to the CS-50 class at Harvard really put the whole AI, large language model into perspe...
Monday, December 18, 2023

Pete Juliano N6QW Completes Another Orbit -- Happy Birthday Pete

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 Today is the birthday of Peter Juliano, N6QW.  Happy birthday Pete! 
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Sunday, December 17, 2023

Make Your Own SDR Software! And, "Analog Man" by Joe Walsh of the Eagles (WB6ACU)

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The above video appeared on Hack-A-Day this morning.  ON THE SAME MORNING, Bruce KK0S happened to send me this version of Joe Walsh WB6ACU...
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Friday, December 15, 2023

Check out the Hyderabad, India Hamfest! LARC-6

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This all looks very familiar.  It is very much like the hamfests and rallies I've seen in the US and UK.  Note in the video above that w...
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