SolderSmoke Daily News

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Now That's A Radio Shack! JH0JDV

I was at the workbench this morning, working on a 30 meter DC/DSB transceiver. I had the Barebones superhet tuned to white noise on 17 meters. Then I heard a strong CQ that sounded like DX. It was Ely, JH0JDV. He was the only signal on the band. We had a very nice contact, no problems at all. I was running my normal 10 watts to a dipole. Afterwards I Googled him. Wow, he has a REAL radio shack! FB Ely!

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Friday, May 3, 2013

Making the World's Smallest Movie

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Thursday, May 2, 2013

WA0RBR's Fun-Rig

Last night I called CQ on 20 CW (with my Arduino keying the homebrew transmitter!) and was answered by Mark, WA0RBR. I Googled the call and found that Mark is quite a homebrewer. He wrote a nice series of articles for 73 magazine in the early 80's. Here they are:

http://mikeyancey.com/73mag/listauthor.php?Author=WA0RBR

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