Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Bill N2CQR Builds Yet Another Mythbuster Transceiver

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  This one is for 20 meters (no need for 75) and will go to the Dominican Republic. 6 crystal filter at 5.2 MHz. VFO from old Yaesu FT-101 ...
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Thursday, October 24, 2024

Mike WU2D Does a CCC Camp POTA with 1930's Gear

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FB Mike.  CW without sidetone is not for the faint of heart.   Walter KA4KXX saw Mike on the Reverse Beacon Network.  Mike's QSO with KN...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

A Solar Energy Workshop in Hawaii

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I include this because I am interested in workshops and solar power.   Thanks to Bill AH6FC for sending this.  Mahlo Bill!  
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

KA1MUQ's Amazing Homebrew Hybrid Rig

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  Nate KA1MUQ is still working on this rig and so has not yet produced any detailed schematics, but he sent this to us to show that true hom...
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Friday, October 18, 2024

Mike WU2D POTA CCC Camp Activation (21 October 2024) with 1930s-era Station -- See If You Can Contact Mike!

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Frank Jones lives!  See if you can work Mike on Monday.  Let us know if you do!  -------------------------------- Bill,   I’m scheduled to t...
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Thursday, October 17, 2024

How to Organize a Small Shack

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A YouTube comment from Paul VK3HN sent me back to "The Spirited Man" YouTube channel , and one of the first things I found was thi...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

SolderSmoke Podcast #253 AUDIO VERSION: NYC, SF, DR, PC, DSC, PODCAST IN DANGER, SPRAT, sBITX, CW, IMD, AI, PNP, MAILBAG

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SolderSmoke Podcast #253 is available:    http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke253.mp3 October 16, 2024 Sponsor!  Parts Candy is back!  Handmad...
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SolderSmoke Podcast #253 VIDEO VERSION : NYC, SF, DR, PC, DSC, PODCAST IN DANGER, SPRAT, sBITX, CW, IMD, AI, PNP, MAILBAG

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SolderSmoke #253 is available in video form.  See above or:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQBojTLL7VY The audio version is available in t...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Two Great (but Old) Videos about Waves

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I've had both of these videos on the SolderSmoke blog already, but an e-mail from Farhan reminded me how good they both are. If you a...
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Monday, October 14, 2024

Monitoring Maritime Radio Messages with YADD

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  Click on the image for a clearer view This is really cool and very easy.  Easy nerd thrills.   On Friday, Steve VE7SL, put up a blog post...
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Tuesday, October 8, 2024

The Transistor that Changed the World -- the MOSFET

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Another great video from Asianometry.   My only quibble is that it kind of left unclear the differences between JFETs and MOSFETs.  After al...
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Monday, October 7, 2024

Tally Ho! Leo Solders -- Aurora -- Satellites -- Meteors -- Tides -- Starlink

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I've been following this YouTube channel, probably since early in the pandemic.  It is not about radio, but in this episode we see Leo a...
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