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<\/a><\/div>\n Eric Guth 4Z1UG had a really nice interview with our friend Charlie Morris ZL2CTM. Charlie shared with Eric a lot of wisdom about how to homebrew radio gear. I especially liked Charlie’s comments on keeping most of his rigs on the wooden prototype boards. He said something important when he talked about the benefits of taking a break from a difficult problem, then coming back to it with a rested and refreshed mind. I noted, however, that he said most of these frustrating problems have to do with software. <\/b>
<\/b> I got got several chuckles out of Charlie’s comments on the difficulty of building stable analog LC VFOs (here he seemed to be channeling our good friend Pete Juliano). I chuckled because as I listened I was happily building the analog LC VFO for my Q-31 Quarantine receiver. The centerpiece of this project is a variable capacitor that Pete gave me; Pete took it out of an old Galaxy V transceiver. Believe me guys, no rotary encoder could possibly look as nice or have as much soul as that capacitor from Pete, with all its gears, reduction drives, and anti-backlash mechanisms. It even smells of machine oil. Call me a Luddite, but I will stick with the coils and capacitors. <\/b>
<\/b> Listen to the interview here: <\/b><\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.qsotoday.com\/podcasts\/zl2ctm<\/b><\/a> Eric Guth 4Z1UG had a really nice interview with our friend Charlie Morris ZL2CTM. Charlie shared with Eric a lot of wisdom about how to homebrew radio gear. I especially liked Charlie’s comments on keeping most of his rigs on the wooden prototype boards. He said something important when he talked about the benefits of … Continue reading “ZL2CTM Charlie Morris on “QSO Today” with Eric Guth 4Z1UG”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,33,99,102,41,113,350,127,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arduino","category-dsb","category-guth-eric","category-israel","category-juliano-pete","category-microcontrollers","category-morris-charlie","category-new-zealand","category-sdr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295","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=7295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7297,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295\/revisions\/7297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/b> Thanks to Charlie and Eric. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"