SolderSmoke Podcast #178 is available:
http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke178.mp3
18 July 2015
Anniversaries:
Pete Juliano — One year with the podcast
BITX20 — Ten years of homebrew fun
SolderSmoke Podcast: Ten years of podcasting
Bench Report: Pete’s ZIA and LBS II
Bill messes around with old microphones
Looking ahead:
Pete plans antennas
Bill lusts after ladder line (spurred on by Farhan’s new blog)
On the Air Reports:
Pete on 20 with ZIA and LBSII
Bill having fun on 40 (even with the Spectral Purity Police)
Bill tries rock-bound QRPp. It is hard. (Spoiled by QRO BITX luxury)
Bill’s verdict: BITX40 with Yaesu filter, Si5351, and TIA best of the 3 rigs.
Catching Cubesats with Pete’s SDR Dongle
Digitizing old paper logs (and finding a lot more HB rigs)
Interviews with Eric 4Z1UG on QSO Today Podcast
FDIM interviews by Bob Crane
Peter Parker’s review of DSB kit
MAILBAG:
Parts from W8NSA
Colin’s tuna Tin Mighty Mite
Dean’s Tiny Tia
Bryan’s MMM dreams
Armand braves the heat at the Manassas Hamfest
Our book: “SolderSmoke — Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics” http://soldersmoke.com/book.htm Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: http://www.cafepress.com/SolderSmoke Our Book Store: http://astore.amazon.com/contracross-20
Bravo Bill and Pete….very interesting conversations.
Another great installment, gentlemen. I listened as while strolling through Cișmigiu Gardens to deliver felafel to my wife’s office. Pink feedline spreaders?! For shame! Surely the he-man homebrewer could employ spent shell casings or chunks of mastadon tusk. Great laughs and excellent technical insights from you two goofball radio wizards, once again. I have Obsessive Antenna Aspirations of my own as I struggle to eke RF from our soviet-era concrete bunker in Central Bucharest, desperately fleeing the “Romanian CIA.” All in good fun. Details to follow. Very best 73s, Jonathan YO3/W0XO
Good informative podcast once again guys! Funny too! Thanks alot for keepin radio fun. 73’s, Erik (kb3vxv)