{"id":7521,"date":"2017-03-04T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/03\/04\/soldersmoke-podcast-194-approaching-the-digital-analog-singularity\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:03:22","slug":"soldersmoke-podcast-194-approaching-the-digital-analog-singularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/03\/04\/soldersmoke-podcast-194-approaching-the-digital-analog-singularity\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Podcast 194 – Approaching the Digital-Analog Singularity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SolderSmoke 194 is available (scroll down for link) <\/b>
March 4, 2017<\/b> <\/p>\n

BIG NEWS: uBITX from Farhan<\/b><\/div>\n
BENCH REPORTS
Pete: Recycling Old Boards
Working on Arduinos and advanced displays <\/b><\/div>\n
Bill: SDR Adventures and Misadventures.
RTL-SDR is fun. Built HB front end.
HDSDR under Windows is fun and easy.
Thought about Raspi3, 7 inch touch screen, Linux, software YUCK.
Followed advice of Ken G4IIB and got a 50 buck tablet with Google Play. <\/b><\/div>\n
Who needs tiny OLEDs? Use a 7 inch tablet as your display! <\/b><\/div>\n
Building a Ceramic Resonator for the HRO 455 kc filter
The value of doing something different.
Boxed up my NE602 OLED rig.
OLED noise and ACTIVE decoupling.
NE602 and MOSFET tips <\/b><\/div>\n
LEXICON:
OTD Obsessive Tinkering Disorder G6LBQ
“A Thing of Beauty”
Source of Tombstoning term: Don ND6T.
Ken G4IIB\u2019s extremely smooth audio. <\/b><\/div>\n
ON THE AIR:
On AM on 75 and 40. Fun. Old Military Radio Net and “The Lonely Guy Net” on 75 Saturday morning.
Good old 17 meters. Open at mid-day
HB2HB on 40 with W0PWE.
Listening on 60 <\/b><\/div>\n
Hambrew magazines disappeared, but are back now.
EMRFD Classic Edition available
New Posts to BITX HACKS<\/b><\/div>\n
MAILBAG:
Gloves follow-up. Not a good idea.
VK3YE\u2019s QRP by the Bay event and a new book!
Colin M1BUU achieves Mountaingoat status
Martin A65DC JoO MMM in the UAE
Tom NY2RF Editorial with mention of JoO!
Lots of Al Fresco rigs: W8LM BITX on a board, Brad WA8WDQ DC RX, KA4KXX Al Fresco OZ DSB
ON6UU DSB from Spain via Belguim
Hugh ZL1UEM SMALL Si5351 OLED
Cookie Tin rigs VK2EMU\u2019s Biscuit Tin DC RX, WA7HRG\u2019s Popcorn rig
VK4FFAB FB LTSPICE intro
Ken G4IIB\u2019s BITX adventure (with VERY smooth audio. How smooth? We can\u2019t say.)
VU2XE\u2019s BITX with a CAD box
G0ETP\u2019s shockingly beautiful SDR receiver
Alan W2AEW on the mend with broken ankle. His videos are a treasure trove of tribal knowledge. <\/b><\/div>\n
http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke194.mp3<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n
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SolderSmoke 194 is available (scroll down for link) March 4, 2017 BIG NEWS: uBITX from Farhan BENCH REPORTSPete: Recycling Old BoardsWorking on Arduinos and advanced displays Bill: SDR Adventures and Misadventures. RTL-SDR is fun. Built HB front end. HDSDR under Windows is fun and easy. Thought about Raspi3, 7 inch touch screen, Linux, software YUCK. … Continue reading “SolderSmoke Podcast 194 – Approaching the Digital-Analog Singularity”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,16,246,179,40,49,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arduino","category-filters","category-linux","category-raspberry-pi","category-sdr","category-soldersmoke-podcast","category-ubitx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521","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=7521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7524,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521\/revisions\/7524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}