{"id":5060,"date":"2020-06-25T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/06\/25\/pete-julianos-presentation-to-the-cedar-valley-iowa-amateur-radio-club-slides\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:17:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:17:28","slug":"pete-julianos-presentation-to-the-cedar-valley-iowa-amateur-radio-club-slides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/06\/25\/pete-julianos-presentation-to-the-cedar-valley-iowa-amateur-radio-club-slides\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Juliano’s Presentation to the Cedar Valley, Iowa Amateur Radio Club (Slides)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Earlier this month Pete N6QW spoke via Zoom to the Cedar Valley, Iowa Amateur Radio Club. This was an especially appropriate venue for Pete, the creator of the KWM-4; Cedar Rapids was the long-time home of Collins Radio. Many of those in the club used to work for Collins. <\/b><\/p>\n

Here is Pete’s PowerPoint presentation:<\/b> http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/N6QWslides.pptx<\/b><\/a>

<\/b> Some notes on the event: <\/b> <\/p>\n


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For the Zoom connection, Peter used his Linux Mint computer. <\/b><\/div>\n
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Pete mentioned that Gene Senti, while tinkering in his basement, developed the KWM-1. One of the guys in the audience confirmed Pete’s account, but added something: Collins employees could buy ham gear at a discount. Senti bought a brand new 75A4 receiver (commercial price in late 50s was about $900) and he modified it from being just a receiver into a transceiver. Imagine taking a new radio and doing that! But when he got it working, Art Collins came over to his home to see the invention. The rest is history.<\/b><\/div>\n
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Pete got grilled a bit on why he was still using \u201canalog\u2019 front ends on his several SDR builds — why not Direct Digital Conversion? Pete says he may now try to build a DDC rig. <\/b><\/div>\n
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There was also a lot of very nice feedback on the SS Podcasts \u2013 there were many regular listener\u2019s in that group. <\/span><\/b>

<\/b> You can see Pete’s slides here: <\/b>

<\/b> http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/N6QWslides.pptx<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month Pete N6QW spoke via Zoom to the Cedar Valley, Iowa Amateur Radio Club. This was an especially appropriate venue for Pete, the creator of the KWM-4; Cedar Rapids was the long-time home of Collins Radio. Many of those in the club used to work for Collins. Here is Pete’s PowerPoint presentation: http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/N6QWslides.pptx … Continue reading “Pete Juliano’s Presentation to the Cedar Valley, Iowa Amateur Radio Club (Slides)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,41,103,100,31,40,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collins-art","category-juliano-pete","category-knack-stories","category-old-radio","category-radio-history","category-sdr","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060","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=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5062,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions\/5062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}