{"id":1938,"date":"2021-11-17T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T05:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/11\/17\/soldersmoke-podcast-234-pssst-kwm-1-vhf-woes-mighty-midget-tinysa-17-12-dual-bander-advice-needed-mailbag\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:08","slug":"soldersmoke-podcast-234-pssst-kwm-1-vhf-woes-mighty-midget-tinysa-17-12-dual-bander-advice-needed-mailbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/11\/17\/soldersmoke-podcast-234-pssst-kwm-1-vhf-woes-mighty-midget-tinysa-17-12-dual-bander-advice-needed-mailbag\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Podcast #234: PSSST, KWM-1, VHF Woes, Mighty Midget, TinySA, 17-12 Dual-Bander Advice Needed. MAILBAG"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roots of SolderSmoke: The “Click and Clack” of ham radio? <\/b><\/p>\n

Influences: Jean Shepherd, CarTalk, Shortwave stations.<\/b><\/div>\n
Steve “Snort Rosin” Smith WB6TNL? No. Steve “Aching Sinus” Smith WA6SOC <\/p>\n

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Pete’s Bench: <\/u>
PSSST Super Simple SSB — 7 Transistors. Switching IF Module: <\/b><\/div>\n
PSST Details: https:\/\/www.n6qw.com\/PSSST_20.html<\/a><\/b>
DC RX.<\/b>
KWM-1 Resurrection “Shame Shelf”.<\/b>
How to make things work:<\/b><\/div>\n
http:\/\/n6qw.blogspot.com\/2021\/10\/how-to-make-things-work-tribal.html<\/a><\/b>
Diode Switching or Relays?<\/b><\/div>\n
(Why the T\/R diodes in the BITX 20 amplifiers?)<\/b>
National Receiver.<\/p>\n

Bill’s Bench<\/u>
Farhan’s Talk to RSGB got me thinking of VHF 2 meter AM.
2 meter Benton Harbor lunchbox madness. SuperRegens Super Strange.
I broke my Maplin AF Sig Gen in the process. Fixed it.
Playing with MMMRX again. Put in 6 kHz ceramic filter. Sounds great SSB and AM.
Swept IF with noise, TinySA, and NanoVNA. Need better noise gen.
Mod to listen<\/u> with TinySA (on blog).
Thinking of 17 meter \/12 meter Dual-Bander IF around 21.4, VFO around 3.41 Mhz. Thoughts?
Sweeping double half lattice filter from Swan 240. UGLY. <\/p>\n

MAILBAG:
— ROOTS OF MAILBAG: Radio Moscow, Havana Cuba, HCJB, others.
— Thomas K4SWL of the SWL Post: Could have been worse! Stairbag?<\/b><\/div>\n

— MY NOVICE LOG — Heard back from ex-WN2RTH ex-WN2FLK ex-WB2RKK.
— Drew N7DA worked Wes W7ZOI in Sweepstakes. FB.
— Peter VK2EMU The movie Frequency and the Magic of Heathkits. Good, but not that good!
— Thomas KK6AHT! Our old friend. Minima! Now has a young son! FB
— Chuck WA7ZZE Saw QST profile. Sympathizes with Two-er trouble.
— Tim M0CZP. Spell corrector. Vatican Diodes. Infallible!
— Ramakrishnan VU3RDD Working on a NORCAL and a noise cancellation arrangement.
— Skip NC9O said I was 40 Hz off on 17. But he had a reason to KNOW!
— Steve K9NVD Glad he’s a listener.
— Bob KY3R Novice Nostalgia. Should he use 75 watt bulb for dummy load? Yes!
— Todd K7TFC Video about why solder smoke goes into the face.
— Anthony VU3JVX Homebrew Antuino. I ask for help in moving freq to 450 kHz.
— Jack NG2E Building Pete’s DC RX.
— Scott WA9WFA HBR-13 and MMMRX.
— Stephen 2E0FXZ also got a FT-101 VFO.
— Bob K7ZB on the air with 56 mW and a big antenna.
— Dean AC9JQ Retired.
— Allan WA9IRS Right to Repair update.
— Farhan Invited us to Lamakaan ARC, Dec 11 or 12. Will be on QO100 Satellite Live! <\/b><\/div>\n
— Many suggestions about my Apollo 11 Time Capsule. Still looking for ideas. <\/p>\n

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate this holiday!<\/b><\/div>\n


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