SolderSmoke Podcast #164 is available:
August 16, 2014
http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke164.mp3
ANCIENT TRIBAL KNOWLEDGE — TUBE AND TUBE-LIKE RADIOS
Workbench Updates:
— Pete’s Arduino Keyer Project
— Bill Builds (and LIKES!) a REGENERATIVE RECEIVER
— The Joys of Regen Shortwave Listening
— Grayson Evan’s Tube (Thermatron) Book
— Book review: “The Joy of X” (It’s about math).
— Shameless Commerce: A Plug for Bill’s Book
— Pete discusses tube projects
— Making your own enclosures from Home Depot flashing
— Amplitude Modulation
— Compactrons, Nuvistors and other unusual tubes
— BANDSWEEP: Radio Havana on Bill’s new regen
Bill’s Mate for the Mighty Midget Receiver
3 6U8 Tubes on a Benton Harbor Lunch Box Chassis
Nuvistor 2 meter down converter
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Hacking up Heath Twoers and Nuvistor 2 meter converters just for the cases?!?!? Oh the humanity! Don’t do it! My antenna-space-challenged teenage years revolved around my Twoer (5 watts AM), an Ameco Nuvistor convertor, a Lafayette KT-320 receiver and a “Swiss Quad” antenna in our 7th floor apartment near Philly. You should hook up that converter to a coax antenna and listen around! I’ll bet there’s plenty of CW and SSB activity on 2 meters in your vicinity.