Monday, May 19, 2025

Honorable Mention: Andreas DL1AJG's THREE SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receivers for Biologists

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  Andreas DL1AJG was another of those intrepid hams who,  in the dark of winter 2023 took up the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver Chal...
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Duct Tape and a Hero of Apollo 13

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"If it moves and its not supposed to, you use duct tape." Ed Smylie https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/space/ed-smylie-dea...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Rick N3FJZ's Early Completion of the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver Challenge

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 It was a cold day in early February 2023.  Rick N3FJZ had responded to an early version of the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Challenge:  I ...
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Saturday, May 17, 2025

Stephen VK2BLQ's Very FB EARLY build of the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver

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  This was back in the old days, long before we had Discord.  It was early 2023, and we were getting ready to start the Direct Conversion re...

MIT's Haystack Observatory and Dr. Herb Weiss

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We are really privileged to have among us ( and in the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Hall of Fame) Phil Erickson W1PJE.   Phil is the Direc...
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Paul 9V1/KM7ABZ's FB SINGAPORE SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver

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Wow, I had been feeling a bit discourged about the slow-down in receiver completions, then I woke  up this morning and found this e-mail fro...
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Thursday, May 15, 2025

WWII Homebrew In Norway

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  Go to amateurradio r/amateurradio • 14 hr. ago steeljoo How My Grandfather Tuned Into London During WWII with a Radio He Built in Secret G...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

The Computer Hardware of the Apollo Program

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Watching this, it seems like a miracle that we made it to the moon.  Some of this construction is downright scary.  Sometimes soldering is n...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

On the importance of taking a break.

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Thomas K4SWL has a good post about the importance of taking a break from radio.  Following up on this, I noted that "taking a break...
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Sunday, May 11, 2025

Peter Parker VK3YE finds a Homebrew Double Sideband Transceiver at an Australian Hamfest

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Peter's detective work on the mystery box starts at around 13 minutes into this video.  He quickly found a balanced modulator and did no...
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Friday, May 9, 2025

Doug AA0MS's FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver: "This project has been a hoot!"

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Doug built a really beautiful receiver, but reception was marred by a bad hum.  It was quickly determined that this was caused by a noisy ...

Ramakrishnan VU2JXN's FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver: "Extremely thrilled! Hooked!"

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This is a really important Hall of Fame entry for us.  This is our first completed SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver from India (more w...