{"id":4292,"date":"2021-08-27T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T05:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/08\/27\/soldersmoke-podcast-232-mythbuster-petes-tube-cw-rig-petes-dc-rx-and-simple-ssb-rig-nanovna-and-tinysa-very-fb-mailbag\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:36","slug":"soldersmoke-podcast-232-mythbuster-petes-tube-cw-rig-petes-dc-rx-and-simple-ssb-rig-nanovna-and-tinysa-very-fb-mailbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/08\/27\/soldersmoke-podcast-232-mythbuster-petes-tube-cw-rig-petes-dc-rx-and-simple-ssb-rig-nanovna-and-tinysa-very-fb-mailbag\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Podcast #232 &#8212; Mythbuster, Pete&#8217;s Tube CW Rig, Pete&#8217;s DC RX and Simple SSB Rig, NanoVNA and TinySA,  Very FB Mailbag"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG-2498.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1536\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG-2498.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>SolderSmoke Podcast #232 is available &#8212; Crank it in Robert!<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke232.mp3\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke232.mp3<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Featuring a guitar intro by Pete &#8220;Bluesman&#8221; Juliano, playing his own composition: &#8220;Juliano Blues.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke232.mp3\"><br \/><\/a> <\/b><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Upcoming GQRP convention and the N6QW rig<br \/> <\/b><b>Frank Jones and the FMLA &#8212; Possible Victory?<br \/> <\/b><b>IBEW Stickers:<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>NASA, Johns Hopkins APL&#8230;.<br \/> <\/b><b>Cycle 25 Lookin Better Today:<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>SFI 93<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>SN 47<br \/><\/b><o:p><b> <br \/><\/b><\/o:p><b><u>Pete&#8217;s Bench:<\/u><br \/> <\/b><b>Toobular!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> A Tube <\/span>Transmitter<br \/><\/b><b>SR-160<br \/><\/b><b>Simple SSB rigs around the world!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <br \/> <\/span><\/b><b>KI7NSS&#8217;s Pacific 40<br \/><\/b><o:p><b> <br \/><\/b><\/o:p><b><u>Bill&#8217;s Bench<\/u><br \/><\/b><b>The Mythbuster and the Struggle Against the Urban Legend<br \/><\/b><b>W2EWL&#8217;s Cheap and Easy SSB<br \/><\/b><b>W4IMP&#8217;s IMP. Articles in ER by Jim Musgrove K5BZH and Jim Hanlon W8KGI<br \/><\/b><b>The Spirit of Homebrew SSB. From Electric Radio K5BZH December 1991<br \/><\/b><b>Reduced Front End Gain on the DIGITIA<br \/><\/b><b>Back on 17!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>HP3SS sells HBR receiver to Joe Walsh<br \/><\/b><b>Maybe another Moxon?<br \/><\/b><o:p><b> <br \/><\/b><\/o:p><b>SHAMELESS COMMERCE DIVISION<br \/> <\/b><o:p><b> <br \/><\/b><\/o:p><b><u>Test Gear<\/u><br \/><\/b><b>NanoVNA &#8212; Alan W2AEW helped solve mystery of why NanoVNA not providing accurate readout of circuit impedance.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Over driving.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Need attenuator.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <br \/> <\/span><\/b><b>TinySA &#8212; Limited Resolution Bandwidth.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>But you can listen with it!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>See video on blog.<br \/> <\/b><o:p><b> <br \/><\/b><\/o:p><b><u>MAILBAG<\/u><br \/><\/b><b>&#8212; Google Feedburner to end e-mails from the blog \ud83d\ude41<br \/><\/b><b>&#8212; Paul VK3HN &#8212; TIA AGC? Farhan and Paul looking into options <br \/> <\/b><b>&#8212; Ciprian&#8217;s Romanian Mighty Mite<br \/><\/b><b>&#8212; Dino KL0S SolderSmoke GIF and graphical presentation on sideband inversion<br \/><\/b><b>&#8212; Allison KB1GMX helped me on 24 volts to IRF 510 issue.<br \/> <\/b><b>&#8212; Dave K8WPE Wabi Sabi and Martha Stewart. And thanks for parts!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>40673s!<br \/><\/b><b>&#8212; Steve N8NM building a 17 meter rig with 22.1184 crystals in a SuperVXO and a 4 MHz filter.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span><br \/><\/b><b>&#8212; Dean KK4DAS restoring an old Zenith.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>One hand behind your back OM. <br \/> <\/b><b>&#8212; Pete Eaton debating SSB or DSB for 17.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Go DSB Pete!<br \/><\/b><b>&#8212; Richard KN7FSZ a FB HBer.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Asked about my solid-stating of Galaxy V VFO.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span><br \/> <\/b><b>&#8212; Walter KA4KXX on benefits of no-tune BP filters like Farhan&#8217;s<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>FB.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <br \/> <\/span><\/b><b>&#8212; Jack 5B4APL on Time Crystals and Homebrewing in the 4th dimension.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>FB OM!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span><br \/> <\/b><b>&#8212; Moses K8TIY listens to the podcast with his young son Robert.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Crank it in Robert!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <br \/> <\/span><\/b><b>&#8212; Farhan and the SBitx on Hack-A-Day<br \/> <\/b><b>&#8212; Also Tom&#8217;s receiver from junked satellite rig on Hack-A-Day<br \/><\/b><b>&#8212; Todd K7TFC sent in beautiful message about the spirit of homebrewing. On the blog.<br \/> <\/b><b>&#8212; Grayson KJ7UM was on Ham Radio Workbench with George Zaf<br \/><\/b><b>&#8212; AAron K5ATG running a uBitx with a<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>homebrew tuner and antenna.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Hope I can work him<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <br \/> <\/span><\/b><b>&#8212; Heard Mike WA3O last night on 40 DIGITIA.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Water cooled amplifier<\/b><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SolderSmoke Podcast #232 is available &#8212; Crank it in Robert! http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke232.mp3 Featuring a guitar intro by Pete &#8220;Bluesman&#8221; Juliano, playing his own composition: &#8220;Juliano Blues.&#8221; Upcoming GQRP convention and the N6QW rig Frank Jones and the FMLA &#8212; Possible Victory? IBEW Stickers: NASA, Johns Hopkins APL&#8230;. Cycle 25 Lookin Better Today: SFI 93 SN 47 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/08\/27\/soldersmoke-podcast-232-mythbuster-petes-tube-cw-rig-petes-dc-rx-and-simple-ssb-rig-nanovna-and-tinysa-very-fb-mailbag\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SolderSmoke Podcast #232 &#8212; Mythbuster, Pete&#8217;s Tube CW Rig, Pete&#8217;s DC RX and Simple SSB Rig, NanoVNA and TinySA,  Very FB Mailbag&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,193,28,154,66,192,41,132,191,27,49,23,71,101,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-17-meters","category-bitx-digi-tia","category-bitx20","category-evans-grayson","category-farhan","category-gqrp","category-juliano-pete","category-mythbuster","category-nanovna","category-propagation","category-soldersmoke-podcast","category-ssb","category-test-gear","category-tubes","category-wolke-alan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4294,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions\/4294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}