{"id":3382,"date":"2021-06-26T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/06\/26\/soldersmoke-podcast-231-travel-sst-mythbusting-filters-tias-nanovnas-dc-rx-in-sprat-drake-a-line-spillsbury-stickers-mailbag\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:03:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:03:57","slug":"soldersmoke-podcast-231-travel-sst-mythbusting-filters-tias-nanovnas-dc-rx-in-sprat-drake-a-line-spillsbury-stickers-mailbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/06\/26\/soldersmoke-podcast-231-travel-sst-mythbusting-filters-tias-nanovnas-dc-rx-in-sprat-drake-a-line-spillsbury-stickers-mailbag\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Podcast #231 — Travel, SST, Mythbusting, Filters, TIAS, NanoVNAs, DC RX in SPRAT, Drake A Line, Spillsbury, STICKERS! Mailbag"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SolderSmoke # 231 is available: <\/b><\/div>\n

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Annual Field Day Special Edition<\/b><\/div>\n

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Travelogue: To the Dominican Republic! <\/b><\/div>\n
New dog — Meet Guapo (see below). <\/b><\/div>\n

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A great Father’s Day for Pete and Bill. I got a TinySA. <\/b><\/div>\n
Pete got some cool chick magnet glasses (see below). <\/b><\/div>\n
Watch out Newbury Park! <\/b><\/div>\n

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Bill’s Activity<\/b><\/div>\n

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SST Transceiver. Took it to Dominican Republic.<\/b><\/div>\n
Made only one contact, but QRP-QRP. <\/b><\/div>\n
Not a lot of CW activity, and not a lot around 14.060. <\/b><\/div>\n
A lot more FT8 visible on the NA5B WebSDR.<\/b><\/div>\n
That might be better for this kind of operation. <\/b><\/div>\n
I might try SST CW out today from the backyard. Field Day!<\/b><\/div>\n

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Fired up my 20 meter DSB NE602 rigs. Made two contacts. <\/b><\/div>\n
Still trying to fully understand the NE602 Gilbert Cell. Lots of mystery in there. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Building “The MythBuster.” 75\/20 with sideband inversion. <\/b><\/div>\n

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10 pole 5.2 MHz filter. Used Dishal and AADE. <\/b><\/div>\n
Used NanoVNA to see the passband. <\/b><\/div>\n
G3UUR for crystal parameters.<\/b><\/div>\n
Cohn Constant K topology. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Also used NanoVNA to check input and output impedance on the TIA amps I will use around the filter. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Pete’s activity: <\/b><\/div>\n

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Article on DC receiver in SPRAT. FB response. 50 receivers under construction. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Work on Drake A Line. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Jim Spillsbury. <\/b><\/div>\n

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The N5JHH IBEW SolderSmoke stickers (see above and below). How we will use them. <\/b><\/div>\n

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N2SVD<\/b><\/div>\n
K8ITY<\/b><\/div>\n
Tom (Junkbox receiver)<\/b><\/div>\n
N0ZIB (Curse you, SolderSmoke!) <\/b><\/div>\n
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SolderSmoke # 231 is available: http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke231.mp3 Annual Field Day Special Edition Travelogue: To the Dominican Republic! New dog — Meet Guapo (see below). A great Father’s Day for Pete and Bill. I got a TinySA. Pete got some cool chick magnet glasses (see below). Watch out Newbury Park! Bill’s Activity SST Transceiver. Took it to … Continue reading “SolderSmoke Podcast #231 — Travel, SST, Mythbusting, Filters, TIAS, NanoVNAs, DC RX in SPRAT, Drake A Line, Spillsbury, STICKERS! Mailbag”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,116,33,153,16,397,41,132,191,49,17,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collins-art","category-cw","category-dsb","category-field-day","category-filters","category-guapo","category-juliano-pete","category-mythbuster","category-nanovna","category-soldersmoke-podcast","category-sprat","category-test-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382","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=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3387,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions\/3387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}