{"id":8713,"date":"2023-10-14T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/10\/14\/paul-vk3hns-video-on-scratch-building-and-sota\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:03","slug":"paul-vk3hns-video-on-scratch-building-and-sota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/10\/14\/paul-vk3hns-video-on-scratch-building-and-sota\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul VK3HN&#8217;s Video on Scratch-Building and SOTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mi-G2BKdzRQ?si=XDWj4UJH4S4MMqyz?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>It was great to get a comment from Paul VK3HN &#8212; this led to a re-establishment of contact. Apparently Google knows who I have been e-mailing, so this great video appeared on my YouTube screen. Thanks Google! <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Great to hear Paul&#8217;s shout out to Pete Juliano N6QW, and Pete&#8217;s concept of noodling. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Paul&#8217;s emphasis on testing each stage independently is really important. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Wow, ferric chloride! It is great to see someone doing this (instead of just sending Gerber files to China). <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Books. This reminds me that I have to get Drew Diamond&#8217;s books. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Paul&#8217;s comment on the usefulness of a general coverage receiver. Right on target Paul. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; On the test gear, we can now add the TinySA Ultra. And you don&#8217;t have to win the Lotto! <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Finally, Paul is absolutely right on the need to constantly update and publish changes to schematics. <\/b><b>I am guilty of not doing this. (I hang my head in shame.) This became a problem in our simple High-School receiver project &#8212; I would make changes to circuits and fail to communicate these changes to Dean KK4DAS. Paul&#8217;s method would have solved this problem. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Thanks Paul! <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was great to get a comment from Paul VK3HN &#8212; this led to a re-establishment of contact. Apparently Google knows who I have been e-mailing, so this great video appeared on my YouTube screen. Thanks Google! &#8212; Great to hear Paul&#8217;s shout out to Pete Juliano N6QW, and Pete&#8217;s concept of noodling. &#8212; Paul&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/10\/14\/paul-vk3hns-video-on-scratch-building-and-sota\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paul VK3HN&#8217;s Video on Scratch-Building and SOTA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,50,41,324,90,300,226,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-books","category-juliano-pete","category-sota","category-souleles-dean","category-taylor-paul","category-tinysa","category-tj-dc-rx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8713","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11267,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8713\/revisions\/11267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}