SolderSmoke 162 is now available at http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke162.mp3
June 21, 2014
Part II of our interview with Pete Juliano, N6QW
— Bill’s Moxon Monstrosity
— Amplifiers and Exorcisms (See slideshow link below)
— Varactor tuning
— Polivaricon capacitors
— The challenge of building small rigs
— Heat, layout, components and VFO stability
— “No frills” as a building philosophy
— The future of Bill’s Heathkit HW-101
We still have a lot more to talk about. Stay tuned for Part III!
Slideshow of Pete’s RF Amplifiers:
https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=4f1e8c71e0d4f1dc&id=4F1E8C71E0D4F1DC%212640&Bsrc=Photomail&Bpub=SDX.Photos&sff=1&authkey=!AGq3hc4UajARH1s
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Nice podcast again Pete and Bill, really enjoyed it. And thanks for passing along some of my hurdles and questions! Lots of fun to listen to on a Saturday. – Bert WF7I
Really enjoyed the podcast. I figured your listeners might enjoy my video on varactors after listening to this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icw8terKP-M
Bill, Just another success story for the International Brotherhood of Electronic Wizards. About a month and a half ago my wife and I were on a cruise and our relatively new Nikon DSLR camera took a bit of a tumble after a particularly strong wind gust that blew the tripod over. I was immediately sick. I got home and got a quote from Nikon to repair the camera. They wanted $300 to repair it. This gave me the guts needed to open a sensitive electronic device like a DSLR camera. Turns out the only thing wrong with it was a ribbon cable that had jumped out of it’s connector on the main board of the camera and needed to be plugged back in. I told my wife I fixed it, and she could not believe it. I said “this is what happens when you tell a member of the International Brotherhood of Electronic Wizards that something will cost $300 to fix!”. 73, AE5CP – Billy Hyatt
Pete’s slide deck has gone AWOL. Any chance it can be found for us without the knack? Thanks in advance. VA3TYB – Terry Bondy