{"id":10516,"date":"2015-03-22T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/03\/22\/vienna-wireless-winterfest\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:39:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:39:59","slug":"vienna-wireless-winterfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/03\/22\/vienna-wireless-winterfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Vienna Wireless Winterfest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had a good time at the Vienna Wireless Hamfest today. I met up with Armand, WA1UQO, and we went through the hamfest together. Here is what I picked up (and why): <\/strong><\/div>\n
Crystal Radio Kit (for my nephew Sebastian) <\/strong><\/div>\n
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Homemade Solar Panel (because someone had taken the trouble to put this together ) <\/strong><\/div>\n
Milliammeter Meter (because it was connected to the solar panel)<\/strong> <\/div>\n

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Drake Dynamic Microphone (because it is Drake)<\/strong><\/div>\n
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A bunch of BNC connector cables (always useful<\/strong>) <\/div>\n
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Copper clad boards (thinking of the next rig) <\/strong><\/div>\n

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A bunch of RG-174 coax (Belden is usually better, but sometimes you need flexibility) <\/strong><\/div>\n

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Lots of Ferrite Beads (because of my recent suffering with oscillations)<\/strong><\/div>\n

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A bag full of relays (I like relays) <\/strong><\/div>\n

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10 100 ohm pots (great for balanced modulators)<\/strong> <\/div>\n
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Big copper ground stake and straps (because I need to reform in this area). <\/strong><\/div>\n

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An ugly old tube type receiver (because I had a 5 dollar bill in my hand when the lady said “5 bucks!”) I tried to give this to Armand, but he wouldn’t take it. <\/strong><\/div>\n

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Some connectors for Arduino projects (I’m trying not to be a total Luddite). <\/strong><\/div>\n

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Armand gave me three very nice crystal filters. Thanks Armand! <\/strong><\/div>\n

Our book: “SolderSmoke — Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics” http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a good time at the Vienna Wireless Hamfest today. I met up with Armand, WA1UQO, and we went through the hamfest together. Here is what I picked up (and why): Crystal Radio Kit (for my nephew Sebastian) Homemade Solar Panel (because someone had taken the trouble to put this together ) Milliammeter Meter … Continue reading “Vienna Wireless Winterfest”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamfests-and-flea-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516","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=10516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10526,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516\/revisions\/10526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}