Monday, September 30, 2024

Homebrew Receiver -- AG5VG's 20 Meter "Mythbuster" Receiver

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Michael has the receiver done and is wisely heeding Farhan's advice about pausing to enjoy the homebrew sounds.   I was pleased to see s...

Fernando's Rigs -- Vintage Ham Radio Receivers

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Thanks to Rogier PA1ZZ for sending me this YouTube link.  It is a truly wonderful channel from Spain. Not only the Collins Gold Dust Twins, ...
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Thursday, September 26, 2024

SolderSmoke Artificial Intelligence -- Where the AI Podcasts Came From

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  The aticle and the podcast (don't worry, it is NOT an AI podcast) explain how we were able to generate the AI podcasts we presented du...
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AI Podcast #2: Here is Another Short Podcast ABOUT SolderSmoke.

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Click here for the second "A bout SolderSmoke" podcast.   http://www.soldersmoke.com/About SolderSmoke 2.mp3 This one looks not at...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2024

AI Podcast #1 -- A new (experimental) Podcast About SolderSmoke Daily News

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GET THOSE SOLDERING IRONS HEATED UP!  WE'RE GOING DEEP TODAY, DEEP INTO THE WORLD OF HAM RADIO!  Click here for the new experimental pod...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

A Clean Vintage Ham Radio Transmitter: The Collins 32S-3

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In an article on IMD and splatter,  tech guru Rob Sherwood noted that the cleanest tranmitter he had ever owened was the Colling 32S-3.   He...
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Monday, September 23, 2024

Ham Radio -- How To Build Stable Oscillators

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Spasibo Vasily!   Wow, thanks a lot Todd.   There is some great wisdom in your video.  You clearly demonstrate that it is possible to build ...
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Thursday, September 19, 2024

AG5VG's Homebrew 20 meter Superhet (with a CW rig Coming) (Video)

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  Michael AG5VG finished this receiver last weekend.  He hopes to build a CW transmitter using an output of the Si5351.  Obviously I defer t...
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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Vulnerable MOSFETS in NASA's Europa Clipper

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  Oh man, this is terrible.  Just months before launch of the Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter's satellite, they discovered that some o...
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Monday, September 16, 2024

"QRP Classics" The Book that Got Me Started in Homebrew

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https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2022/09/fixing-up-old-homebrew-rig-barebones.html A question this morning from Scott KQ4AOP caused me to Go...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Sherwood: "It's Time to Clean Up our Transmitters"

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  http://nc0b.com/qst-article/NC0B-QST-Nov-2019.pdf As an analog, HDR, discrete component, radical homebrew fundamentalist, obviously I have...
Monday, September 9, 2024

IMD in Transmitters -- Splatter? Or Signal Strength?

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https://www.newsvhf.com/conf2024/PresPapers/WA1MBA-IMD_in_Transmitters.pdf Here is a good (and very recent) article on IMD ("splatter&q...
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