{"id":11009,"date":"2021-03-20T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/03\/20\/soldersmoke-podcast-229-g2nj-trophy-sdr-hdr-cw-mailbag\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:31:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:31:30","slug":"soldersmoke-podcast-229-g2nj-trophy-sdr-hdr-cw-mailbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/03\/20\/soldersmoke-podcast-229-g2nj-trophy-sdr-hdr-cw-mailbag\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Podcast #229 — G2NJ Trophy, SDR, HDR, CW! Mailbag"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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Soldersmoke Podcast #229 is available: <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n

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— G2NJ Trophy is awarded to <\/span>Pete Juliano, N6QW. <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

— <\/span>Get your vaccine shot as soon as you can! <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

— More from “Conquering the Electron” by Derek Cheung. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

— Bad fire in the chip factory. Such a shame. Sad! I had NOTHING to do with it. I was <\/b><\/span>home that day. I can prove it.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/b><\/span>— Bezos is not such a bad guy. Turns out he is a space-geek. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

— <\/b><\/span>Perseverance was the big space news. Very cool. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Pete’s bench:<\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Raspberry Pi vs. Microcontrollers<\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Treedix display<\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Conversion of the Dentron Scout<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

CW rigs?<\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

6L6 on a wooden chassis<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n


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Bill’s bench: <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Hodgepodge: <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

— BITX40 Module. <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

— Ramseykit Amp. <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

— San Jian counter, <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

— CW using 750 Hz oscillator. <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

— RF-actuated piezo buzzer. <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

— SDR! SDR using PC and tablet. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

— Checking the output with SDR. <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

— Moving the carrier osc frequency. <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/b><\/span>Also, I put the Fish Soup 10 back on the air. Nice contacts under 200 mw.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Up next: A rig for 80\/75 and 20 meters. Single Conversion. Using VFO from a Yaesu FT101 t<\/b>hat runs 8.7 \u2013 9.2 Mhz. Quiz question: What IF should I use?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

MAILBAG<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Mark Zelesky sent me wood tokens with power and Ohm’s law formulae.<\/span> <\/span>Thanks!<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Scott WA9WFA Built a really nice Mate for Mighty Midget RX \u2013 getting it going! <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Tryg EI7CLB found board of his George Dobbs Ladybird RX. Rebuild it OM! <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Tom WX2J \u2013 We talked about \u201cNo lids, no kids, no space cadets\u201d<\/span> <\/span>nastiness. <\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Nick M0NTV about sideband inversion. I like the simple rule about subtraction. <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jonathan M0JGH \u2013 Always listen to Pete. Got married, has mixing product. Leo?<\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Mike AE0IH. Dad used a BC-348 in the service. Looking for one. FB. <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Adam N0ZIB \u2013 \u201cSilent Shep\u201d site — with some ham radio shows I had not seen. <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Walter KA4KXX in Orlando has a similar subtraction problem with San Jian counter. <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bill N5ALO sent me a really nice KLH speaker. I\u2019m using it now. <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jason N2NLY \u2013 interested in building SSB transceiver. One step at a time OM\u2026<\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Trevor in Annapolis sent xcsd cartoon that really hit home. <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Farhan is doing OK in India, diligently protecting his family from the virus. <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Peter VK2EMU also doing well. <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dave AA7EE Casually killed a DC receiver in Hollywood, and disposed of the remains. <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Charlie ZL2CTM doing great things with simple SSB. Blogpost. <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Phil VK8MC in Darwin sends article on “Mend not End” battle against planned obsolescence. <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bob KY3R re my SDR adventures, asked if I\u2019ve had a recent medical\/psych<\/span><\/span>iatric evaluation. <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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