{"id":1951,"date":"2018-06-23T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/06\/23\/soldersmoke-205-solstice-mars-antennas-displays-phasing-fix-vfos-lexicon-mailbag\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:29:09","slug":"soldersmoke-205-solstice-mars-antennas-displays-phasing-fix-vfos-lexicon-mailbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/06\/23\/soldersmoke-205-solstice-mars-antennas-displays-phasing-fix-vfos-lexicon-mailbag\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke #205 Solstice, Mars, Antennas, Displays, Phasing Fix, VFOs, Lexicon, MAILBAG"},"content":{"rendered":"
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June 23, 2018<\/b>

<\/b> SolderSmoke Podcast #205 is available: <\/b>

<\/b> http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke205.mp3<\/b><\/a>

<\/b> — Summer solstice. Mars Observations. Graduations. Internships. Fathers Day.<\/b>

<\/b> — Antenna Angst: Pete’s tribander and Bill’s Moxon. Insulation and resonance?<\/b>

<\/b> — Pete’s work on color displays. <\/b>

<\/b> — Bill goes back to fix up older projects: <\/b>

<\/b> — Fixing the Frankenstein Phasing RX. Found an open choke!<\/b>

<\/b> — Tightening up the HRO Dial. <\/b>

<\/b> — Achieving Juliano Criteria stability on a BITX20 VFO. <\/b>

<\/b> — Lexicon additions: “Scratch Built” “Hardrock Radio” <\/b>

<\/b> https:\/\/english.stackexchange.com\/questions\/39551\/where-does-the-saying-made-from-scratch-originate<\/a><\/b>

<\/b> — PastaPete: http:\/\/www.pastapete.com\/<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

MAILBAG: <\/b>
Bob Crane W8SX Corrspondent at FDIM<\/b>
Ralph AB1OP Building LBS<\/b>
Bruce KC1FSZ Digital Pot<\/b>
Jason W5IPA uBITX in Juliano Blue<\/b>
Rogier KJ6ETL ON THE AIR WITH A uBITX<\/b>
Special thanks to Tim Walford for 25 years of Hot Iron. <\/b>

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June 23, 2018 SolderSmoke Podcast #205 is available: http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke205.mp3 — Summer solstice. Mars Observations. Graduations. Internships. Fathers Day. — Antenna Angst: Pete’s tribander and Bill’s Moxon. Insulation and resonance? — Pete’s work on color displays. — Bill goes back to fix up older projects: — Fixing the Frankenstein Phasing RX. Found an open choke! — … Continue reading “SolderSmoke #205 Solstice, Mars, Antennas, Displays, Phasing Fix, VFOs, Lexicon, MAILBAG”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,28,321,322,308,54,49,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antennas","category-bitx20","category-hamel-armand","category-lexicon","category-mars","category-phasing-rigs","category-soldersmoke-podcast","category-vfo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","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=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}