Category: VHF

SolderSmoke Podcast #208

SolderSmoke Podcast #208 is available:

http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke208.mp3

 15 December 2018

 Pete and the California fires
Bill goes to Brooklyn
2 meter simplex
A return of the trivial electric motor
Audio from Mars
HF Conditions — a real mixed bag

 Pete looks back at 2018 — The Year of the SSB Transceiver — Lessons Learned

 Hans Summers, the QSX and the virtues of SDR
W7ZOI’s DC Receiver Retrospective
The 1972 Solar Flare and the Vietnam War

 SHAMELESS COMMERCE: Buy your gifts through the Amazon link to the upper right.
Consider SolderSmoke the book as a gift. Visit Pasta Pete’s for cooking ideas.

Don’t Build It! Sage — but unexpected — advice from Pete.

Straight Key Night approaches.

Book Reviews:
–“What is Real?” (Quantum Physics)
— RHdb by K6LHA.

 Movies
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“First Man” (Not yet!)

 MAILBAG:
Steve G0FUW
Ed KC8SBV




SolderSmoke Podcast #207 — 15 mtrs, 60 mtrs, Giants of Radio, Cubesats, Pete’s rigs, SDR MAILBAG

SolderSmoke Podcast #207 is available:

http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke207.mp3

 — Giants of Radio
— Pete on 15 Meters
— Bill on 60 Meters with the uBITX
— Pete’s Sudden and Heath Filter Transceivers
— Cubesats to orbit! To the moon! And to Mars!
— Bill rebuilds his 2 meter “Ray-Gun” Quad (for Farhan’s Cubesat)
— Homebrewing Variable caps and stockpiling NP0
— My “by ear” Minimal Discernible Signal Technique
— Thoughts on Direct Sampling SDR and the Radio Art
MAILBAG
— A request for feedback from GQRP
— G4WIF reports G3ROO on UK TV with spysets
— VU3XVR builds FB rig from EMRFD
— M0KOV Charter member of the 3 Scratch-built BITX club
–KD4PBJ’s PTO Turtle DC Receiver
— AB1OP builds Pete’s LBS receiver and gives us a new acronym: SITB
— KD4EBM — Thanks for the scanner Bob!
— A possible sponsor from California…

— Pete’s dream neighborhood…