{"id":8539,"date":"2015-03-07T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T05:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/03\/07\/soldersmoke-podcast-173-petes-lbs-triumph-and-bills-tale-of-qro-woe\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:51:00","slug":"soldersmoke-podcast-173-petes-lbs-triumph-and-bills-tale-of-qro-woe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/03\/07\/soldersmoke-podcast-173-petes-lbs-triumph-and-bills-tale-of-qro-woe\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Podcast 173: Pete’s LBS Triumph and Bill’s Tale of QRO Woe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SolderSmoke Podcast #173 is available: <\/strong>
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http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke173.mp3<\/strong><\/a>
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7 March 2015 <\/strong>
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Bench Report: Pete’s Progress on the Let’s Build Something Rig:<\/strong>
http:\/\/www.jessystems.com\/LBS_Detail.html<\/strong><\/a>
Ben’s cool case for his LBS rig<\/strong>
Bill’s Tale of Woe: QRO troubles with the BITX 40<\/strong>
— QRO amplifier taking off on 40 (but not 17) <\/strong>
— Criticism and public humiliation on 40<\/strong>
— Troubleshooting <\/strong>
— Suggestions from Allison<\/strong>
— A sad realization about my VFO frequency selection<\/strong>
— Exorcism needed<\/strong>
— Pete suggests a digital solution<\/strong>
— Wow, my ‘scope has an FFT! Almost a spectrum analyzer! <\/strong>
— Some thoughts on trouble shooting<\/strong>
— On the meaning of “BASTA!” <\/strong>
The Spring 2015 Issue of Hot Iron <\/strong>http:\/\/www.walfords.net<\/strong><\/a>
More on Pete’s KX3<\/strong>
Encouraging other hams to build<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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SolderSmoke Podcast #173 is available: http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke173.mp3 7 March 2015 Bench Report: Pete’s Progress on the Let’s Build Something Rig: http:\/\/www.jessystems.com\/LBS_Detail.html Ben’s cool case for his LBS rig Bill’s Tale of Woe: QRO troubles with the BITX 40 — QRO amplifier taking off on 40 (but not 17) — Criticism and public humiliation on 40 — … Continue reading “SolderSmoke Podcast 173: Pete’s LBS Triumph and Bill’s Tale of QRO Woe”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,28,376,41,63,49,71,25,290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aurora","category-bitx20","category-elecraft","category-juliano-pete","category-magazines","category-soldersmoke-podcast","category-test-gear","category-troubleshooting","category-walford-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539","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=8539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8541,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539\/revisions\/8541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}