{"id":3388,"date":"2018-10-27T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/10\/27\/soldersmoke-podcast-207-15-mtrs-60-mtrs-giants-of-radio-cubesats-petes-rigs-sdr-mailbag\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:04:15","slug":"soldersmoke-podcast-207-15-mtrs-60-mtrs-giants-of-radio-cubesats-petes-rigs-sdr-mailbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/10\/27\/soldersmoke-podcast-207-15-mtrs-60-mtrs-giants-of-radio-cubesats-petes-rigs-sdr-mailbag\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Podcast #207 &#8212; 15 mtrs, 60 mtrs, Giants of Radio, Cubesats, Pete&#8217;s rigs, SDR MAILBAG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/N6QWHeathkitRig.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"720\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/N6QWHeathkitRig.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b>SolderSmoke Podcast #207 is available: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke207.mp3\"><b>http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke207.mp3<\/b><\/a><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>&#8212; Giants of Radio<\/b><br \/> <b>&#8212; Pete on 15 Meters<\/b><br \/> <b>&#8212; Bill on 60 Meters with the uBITX<\/b><br \/> <b>&#8212; Pete&#8217;s Sudden and Heath Filter Transceivers<\/b><br \/> <b>&#8212; Cubesats to orbit! To the moon! And to Mars! <\/b><br \/> <b>&#8212; Bill rebuilds his 2 meter &#8220;Ray-Gun&#8221; Quad (for Farhan&#8217;s Cubesat)<\/b><br \/> <b>&#8212; Homebrewing Variable caps and stockpiling NP0<\/b><br \/> <b>&#8212; My &#8220;by ear&#8221; Minimal Discernible Signal Technique<\/b><br \/> <b>&#8212; Thoughts on Direct Sampling SDR and the Radio Art<\/b><br \/> <b>MAILBAG<\/b><br \/> <b>&#8212; A request for feedback from GQRP<\/b><br \/> <b>&#8212; G4WIF reports G3ROO on UK TV with spysets<\/b><br \/> <b>&#8212; VU3XVR builds FB rig from EMRFD<\/b><br \/> <b>&#8212; M0KOV Charter member of the 3 Scratch-built BITX club<\/b><br \/> <b>&#8211;KD4PBJ&#8217;s PTO Turtle DC Receiver<\/b><br \/> <b>&#8212; AB1OP builds Pete&#8217;s LBS receiver and gives us a new acronym: SITB<\/b><br \/> <b>&#8212; KD4EBM &#8212; Thanks for the scanner Bob! <\/b><br \/> <b>&#8212; A possible sponsor from California&#8230; <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>&#8212; Pete&#8217;s dream neighborhood&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SolderSmoke Podcast #207 is available: http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke207.mp3 &#8212; Giants of Radio &#8212; Pete on 15 Meters &#8212; Bill on 60 Meters with the uBITX &#8212; Pete&#8217;s Sudden and Heath Filter Transceivers &#8212; Cubesats to orbit! To the moon! And to Mars! &#8212; Bill rebuilds his 2 meter &#8220;Ray-Gun&#8221; Quad (for Farhan&#8217;s Cubesat) &#8212; Homebrewing Variable caps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/10\/27\/soldersmoke-podcast-207-15-mtrs-60-mtrs-giants-of-radio-cubesats-petes-rigs-sdr-mailbag\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SolderSmoke Podcast #207 &#8212; 15 mtrs, 60 mtrs, Giants of Radio, Cubesats, Pete&#8217;s rigs, SDR MAILBAG&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,327,69,149,31,82,40,49,71,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15-meters","category-60-meters","category-antennas","category-heathkits","category-radio-history","category-satellites","category-sdr","category-soldersmoke-podcast","category-test-gear","category-vhf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388","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=3388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3390,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions\/3390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}