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Monday, June 7, 2021
Dino's Test Gear -- KL0S at FDIM 2021
Sunday, June 6, 2021
VK3HN on Scratch Building (Video)
Lots of wisdom and good info in Paul Taylor's presentation.
Paul's comment on the impact of abundant LiPo power in the field -- we no longer have to scrimp and optimize power consumption -- was very interesting.
And thanks for the nice mentions of the SolderSmoke podcast.
Thanks Paul!
Saturday, June 5, 2021
Friday, June 4, 2021
To Mars in 1964 -- Building the Camera and Radio Systems
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Remastered! The Secret Life of Radio -- With Updated Comments from Tim Hunkin
Sunday, May 30, 2021
QRP - QRP Contact from Dominican Republic
Friday, May 28, 2021
Farhan's sBITX -- Combining SDR with the Traditional Superhet
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
TRGHS: K3ZO heard from the Dominican Republic
We arrived in the DR just yesterday, and this morning was my first chance to do some ham radio stuff. I fired up my old Sony SW receiver (the one with the busted BFO fine tuning control) and tuned to 20 meters. The very first station I tuned in (after adjusting the BFO with my Swiss army knife) was talking about the Cicadas. He described weather similar to that which we had just left in Northern Virginia. Then I heard the call: K3ZO. It was Fred Laun up in Maryland! When I first came to the DR in 1992, the locals were talking about Fred as if he had just recently past through. I learned, however, that he had been there during the 1960s! He had left quite an impression. He had saved one of the local hams during the 1965 political violence. I gave that same local ham some Vibroplex parts so that he could fix up an old bug that Fred had left him.
Wow, it was really cool to have Fred Laun be the very first ham I hear during this trip. The Radio Gods Have Spoken. We need to spend more time (especially winter time!) in the DR!
I have a video of this listening session that I will post when we get back to Virginia.
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Monday, May 24, 2021
Parasets, Parachutes, and Tubes in "A French Village" Season 3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_village_fran%C3%A7ais
In season 3, Episodes 7 and 8, resistance members parachute in from London. They are equipped with what looks a lot like a paraset. One of their tubes develops an open filament. The Germans engage in radio direction finding. The Morse code is fairly good (but not great). All in all, there is quite a bit of radio-related material.
"A French Village" is a very well-done series. But it is (of course) quite dark.