Monday, August 31, 2026

KW4H -- Steve -- "Knobs > Menus"

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  I really like the "KNOBS are greater than MENUS" sign.  For years we have been saying that menus are for restaurants.  FB Steve....
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Sunday, August 30, 2026

W9TH - Jeff -- Shames Me Into Building a 6T9er -- "You Have No Excuse"

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  First off, that my friends is a ham radio shack.  Note the many books.  And the many Heathkit HW-8s and at least one HW-7. There is a ...
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Saturday, August 29, 2026

"Solvitur ambulando." Latin for "It is solved by walking."

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We've been proponents of this idea for a long time:  Essentially it is that sometimes you have to at least temporarily put a hard techni...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Keeping the Voyager Spacecraft Alive

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  https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/science/nasa-voyagers-big-bang.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8VA.nYO7.tliu0Kleh5vJ&smid=url-share He...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Solid State Transformers -- Are the small DC supplies from Amazon small versions of what we need?

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The algorithm seems to KNOW what I have been reading.  This week the New York Times Sunday magazine had a really frightening story about the...
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Monday, August 24, 2026

First Earth-Moon-Earth Echoes: 1946 from New Jersey on 111.5 MHz using Military Radar Gear

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https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/project-diana-moon-and-soviet-union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Diana
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Sunday, August 23, 2026

Maxwell's Equations Explained

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I really liked this one, and the follow-on videos show a lot of promise.  The maker starts with the four equations that we see on T shirts. ...
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Friday, August 21, 2026

The Solar Eclipse in Spain, Balloons, and Veritasium

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This was all pretty cool.  There was a lot of good scientific info.  I had noticed the crescent shapes on the ground during earlier solar ec...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2026

SolderSmoke Podcast 266: TROUBLESHOOTING! Test Gear, LA6NCA, ZIA Rig, Australia, Nuvistors, 75 AM, MAILBAG

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SolderSmoke Podcast # 266 is available.  Video version:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hbLmsFxzx4 Audio version:  http://soldersmoke.com/...
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Sunday, August 16, 2026

Why is Lahti on the Dial of the Receiver? Where is Lahti?

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I have seen Schenectady and even Springfeld (see below!) but Lahti was new to me.  I spotted it yesterday on the dial of the receiver that t...
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Saturday, August 15, 2026

Fixing up a Nice Old (but not TOO old) Receiver in the UK -- What would you have done? Please comment below.

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Crikey! Blimey! The parts are wonky!   Then he fixes it and they are all lovely!   These are some great descriptive words that you just w...
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Friday, August 14, 2026

Some Great Workshop Ideas from Germany -- What do you think? Is there any overkill? Should I stick with the baby-wipe boxes?

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Here we continue our series on workshops.  This one is in English, so most readers will not need any closed captions nor translation. There ...
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