{"id":4958,"date":"2019-12-21T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/12\/21\/soldersmoke-podcast-216-is-available-bitxs-paesano-paraset-et2-antuino-mailbag\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:07:38","slug":"soldersmoke-podcast-216-is-available-bitxs-paesano-paraset-et2-antuino-mailbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/12\/21\/soldersmoke-podcast-216-is-available-bitxs-paesano-paraset-et2-antuino-mailbag\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Podcast #216 Is Available: BITXs, Paesano, Paraset, ET2, Antuino, Mailbag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Bill’s uBITX with HB keys and the mic that used to be the podcast mic! <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

SolderSmoke Podcast #216 is available <\/b>

<\/b> 21 December 2019<\/b>

<\/b> HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL! <\/b>

<\/b> http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke216.mp3<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Pete’s Bench <\/u><\/b><\/div>\n
Sprat Article<\/b><\/div>\n
BITX 40 Fun<\/b><\/div>\n
ZL2BMI Rig<\/b><\/div>\n
Paraset. Three tubes! Almost an ET-3!<\/b><\/div>\n

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Bill’s Bench<\/u><\/b><\/div>\n
ET-2 Adventure over, Rig on the wall<\/b><\/div>\n
Final QSO count. 20 3 “random” <\/b><\/div>\n
Last QSO with AA8OZ<\/b><\/div>\n
Lessons learned: 100 mW not the problem. Crystal Control cramps your style. <\/b><\/div>\n
N0WVA regen amazingly effective.<\/b><\/div>\n
Tried for the Sunrise Net. Walter sent me some crystals. <\/b><\/div>\n

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On to the uBITX. <\/b><\/div>\n
Accidentally wiped out calibration and BFO settings. <\/b><\/div>\n
Had to do recalibration and reset BFO. <\/b><\/div>\n
Learned a lot about the rig. <\/b><\/div>\n
How they did CW and how they do it now. Shift TX? Or shift RX? Or just shift BFO on RX? <\/b><\/div>\n
How all the signals end up as upper sideband. Only one BFO freq. Very cool. <\/b><\/div>\n
TalentCell 12 V Lithium Ion 3 AmpHour battery. Size of a deck of cards. <\/b><\/div>\n
Inspired by Peregrino — I ordered EFHW Tuner from QRP Guys. <\/b><\/div>\n
Homebrew Straight Keys<\/b><\/div>\n

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Antuino upgrade <\/b><\/div>\n
SMT soldering. <\/b><\/div>\n
Back to Arduino Nano and the IDE. <\/b><\/div>\n
A very cool tool. <\/b><\/div>\n
Antuino filter analysis.<\/b><\/div>\n
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Version 6 of uBITX out. <\/b><\/div>\n

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The “Watt Meter” DC power meter. Very useful. 8 bucks. LINK:<\/b><\/div>\n

https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/Digital-DC-combo-Meter-LCD-Watt-Power-Volt-Amp-RC-Battery-charging-Analyzer-M\/152339793114?fbclid=IwAR0u9SlZi2Dm6zOJyZt4fDTu7w_pjBIEYD_FiNfLymxtQUbMjcNHjfB17P0<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

SPRAT, balloons and hardcore homebrew hydrogen. <\/b><\/div>\n

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MAILBAG<\/u><\/b><\/div>\n
VK3HN’s AM receiver. I ordered 6kHz 455 kHz filters from Australia. <\/b><\/div>\n
Dean’s MMM<\/b><\/div>\n
Peter VK2EMU Hertz not hertz. <\/b><\/div>\n
Ben KC9DLM LTSpice YouTube Videos<\/b><\/div>\n
Steve Silverman Electroluminescent Receiver Kit<\/b><\/div>\n
Lyndon N0LFX back to listening. FB OM<\/b><\/div>\n
Steve M0KOV built a pill bottle variometer. Did you get the regen going? <\/b><\/div>\n
Anthony VU3JVX FB HB uBitx. <\/b><\/div>\n
Allison KB1GMX Great to hear from her<\/b><\/div>\n

Leif WB9IWT — helped me trouble shoot my uBITX (BFO was low)<\/b> <\/p>\n

Mike EI0CL old buddy from Azores days. Recognized his voice on 20. Great QSO. <\/b><\/div>\n
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Bill’s uBITX with HB keys and the mic that used to be the podcast mic! SolderSmoke Podcast #216 is available 21 December 2019 HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL! http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke216.mp3 Pete’s Bench Sprat Article BITX 40 Fun ZL2BMI Rig Paraset. Three tubes! Almost an ET-3! Bill’s Bench ET-2 Adventure over, Rig on the wall Final QSO count. … Continue reading “SolderSmoke Podcast #216 Is Available: BITXs, Paesano, Paraset, ET2, Antuino, Mailbag”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,65,116,66,260,148,49,17,57,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antuino","category-bitx40module","category-cw","category-farhan","category-minimalist-computing","category-regens","category-soldersmoke-podcast","category-sprat","category-superhet-receivers","category-ubitx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958","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=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4960,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions\/4960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}