{"id":10396,"date":"2020-10-31T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/10\/31\/soldersmoke-podcast-226-the-u-s-election-solar-cycle-usdx-hermes-hp8640b-sgc-600-sig-gen-ha-600a-mailbag\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:23:47","slug":"soldersmoke-podcast-226-the-u-s-election-solar-cycle-usdx-hermes-hp8640b-sgc-600-sig-gen-ha-600a-mailbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/10\/31\/soldersmoke-podcast-226-the-u-s-election-solar-cycle-usdx-hermes-hp8640b-sgc-600-sig-gen-ha-600a-mailbag\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Podcast #226   The U.S. Election, Solar Cycle, uSDX, Hermes, HP8640B, SGC 600 Sig Gen, HA-600A,  Mailbag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/LafayetteHA600AChassis.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1536\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/LafayetteHA600AChassis.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b>SolderSmoke Podcast # 226 <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke226.mp3\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke226.mp3<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b>About the U.S. election<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b>Mars: Setting early, will have to shift to evening observation. Weather has been poor. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b>Sunspot Cycle 25 is underway &#8212; SFI 78, SN 32 <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b>The Gliessberg cycle<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b>Pete&#8217;s Bench: #49, #50, uSDX, Hermes Lite<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b>Bill&#8217;s Bench: HP8640B, Global Specialties Corp 6000 counter, Lafayette HA600A.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b>MAILBAG:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b>Peter VK2EMU Sent me copy of 1947 Handbook. Thanks Peter<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b>Brad W1BCC Spotted 10 S-38s for 80 bucks on Craig\u2019s list. What\u2019s going on here? <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b>Dale K9NN sent both Pete and I care packages with very cool part, including DG Mosfets<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b>Stuart ZL2TW sent me Les Moxon\u2019s Antenna Book. TRGHS. Moxon will be back! <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b>Alvin N5VZH got his receive converter with a little Tribal Knowledge from SS. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b>GM4OOU The Bitsy DSB rig from Scotland<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b>Peter VK3YE DSBto DC incompatibility SOLVED<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b>Paul VK3HN&#8217;s Digital SWR and Power Meter and Low band AM TX VFO\/Controller FB Videos. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b>VK2BLQ alerts us to article about Jac Holzman of Elektra Records. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\"><b>AA0ZZ great message on assembler language and writing software the hard way. <\/b><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SolderSmoke Podcast # 226 http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke226.mp3 &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- About the U.S. election &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; Mars: Setting early, will have to shift to evening observation. Weather has been poor. Sunspot Cycle 25 is underway &#8212; SFI 78, SN 32 The Gliessberg cycle Pete&#8217;s Bench: #49, #50, uSDX, Hermes Lite Bill&#8217;s Bench: HP8640B, Global Specialties Corp 6000 counter, Lafayette HA600A. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/10\/31\/soldersmoke-podcast-226-the-u-s-election-solar-cycle-usdx-hermes-hp8640b-sgc-600-sig-gen-ha-600a-mailbag\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SolderSmoke Podcast #226   The U.S. Election, Solar Cycle, uSDX, Hermes, HP8640B, SGC 600 Sig Gen, HA-600A,  Mailbag&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,171,41,106,27,40,80,49,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-17-meters","category-hp8640b","category-juliano-pete","category-lafayette-ha-600a","category-propagation","category-sdr","category-solar-cycle","category-soldersmoke-podcast","category-test-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10398,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10396\/revisions\/10398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}