{"id":7210,"date":"2017-07-29T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/07\/29\/soldersmoke-podcast-198-d-104-hw-8-juliello-difx-dishal-baofeng-mailbag\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:33:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:33:32","slug":"soldersmoke-podcast-198-d-104-hw-8-juliello-difx-dishal-baofeng-mailbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/07\/29\/soldersmoke-podcast-198-d-104-hw-8-juliello-difx-dishal-baofeng-mailbag\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Podcast #198 – D-104, HW-8, Juliello, DIFX, Dishal, Baofeng, MAILBAG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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SolderSmoke Podcast #198 is available. <\/b><\/div>\n

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http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke198.mp3<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n

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29 July 2017<\/b><\/div>\n

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Sign on a beach store: SHACK-TACULAR! <\/b><\/div>\n

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Noticed that EB63 amp was getting hot. Why? <\/b><\/div>\n
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TT2, Herring Aid5, Farhan’s Key: QRPp and CW! See?<\/b><\/div>\n
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D-104 lore — Reading from Bill Breshear’s (WC3K) ER article<\/b><\/div>\n
Astatic crystal\/ceramic element — disappointingly flimsy<\/b><\/div>\n
Electret-ing it. The G-Spot (see picture above)<\/b><\/div>\n
Walery KB2FIV sent crystal mic element and piezo buzzer (reverse for mic!) FB<\/b><\/div>\n
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HW-8 AF filter Center Frequency Problem. IT’S TRUE! Fixed! Finally. <\/b><\/div>\n
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Shack re-org at N2CQR<\/b><\/div>\n
Got Steve Silverman’s HP 8640B Sig gen on the bench. Required reinforcement<\/b><\/div>\n
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Pete’s new DIFX<\/b><\/div>\n
LM373 rigs. Perhaps with that CA3020 Pete sent me. Chips Ahoy! <\/b><\/div>\n
Juliano Yellow? Origins of Blue? Juliello? Julionyx? <\/b><\/div>\n
HB Crystal Filter Capitulation? Don’t give up Pete — just dish the Dishal!<\/b><\/div>\n
Ceramic VXOs? K.P.S. Kang<\/b><\/div>\n
Crystal testers by G7WKE and Dino KL0S. Impressive. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Antennas and BITX40 modules. Antennas are important.<\/b><\/div>\n
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Bill’s new Baofeng HT on 440. <\/b><\/div>\n
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Fixing my Sony SW7600GR<\/b><\/div>\n
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MAILBAG<\/b><\/div>\n
Steve Silverman alerts us to NYC radio row now in the Bronx. <\/b><\/div>\n
Tony G4WIF on the cover of SPRAT — Getting the Don Cameron award. FB <\/b><\/div>\n
Armand WA1UQO points out that the Berryville hamfest is coming up… <\/b><\/div>\n
Thomas KK6AHT F4HDQ writes in. <\/b><\/div>\n
On the air with W8NSA<\/b><\/div>\n

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Juliello. No. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Bill Breshears WC3K (SK) SolderSmoke Podcast #198 is available. http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke198.mp3 29 July 2017 Sign on a beach store: SHACK-TACULAR! Noticed that EB63 amp was getting hot. Why? TT2, Herring Aid5, Farhan’s Key: QRPp and CW! See? D-104 lore — Reading from Bill Breshear’s (WC3K) ER article Astatic crystal\/ceramic element — disappointingly flimsy Electret-ing it. The … Continue reading “SolderSmoke Podcast #198 – D-104, HW-8, Juliello, DIFX, Dishal, Baofeng, MAILBAG”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,242,16,15,219,100,72,49,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx40module","category-electric-radio-magazine","category-filters","category-hw-8","category-microphone","category-old-radio","category-short-wave-listening","category-soldersmoke-podcast","category-uhf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210","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=7210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7213,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210\/revisions\/7213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}