{"id":9035,"date":"2023-11-10T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T05:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/11\/10\/soldersmoke-podcast-249-travel-petes-6ba6-rig-books-vfos-sdr-computers-spectrum-analysers-transistor-man-mailbag\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:03","slug":"soldersmoke-podcast-249-travel-petes-6ba6-rig-books-vfos-sdr-computers-spectrum-analysers-transistor-man-mailbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/11\/10\/soldersmoke-podcast-249-travel-petes-6ba6-rig-books-vfos-sdr-computers-spectrum-analysers-transistor-man-mailbag\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Podcast #249 — Travel, Pete’s 6BA6 rig, Books!, VFOs, SDR, Computers, Spectrum Analysers, Transistor Man! MAILBAG"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New VFO for 15-10 Transceiver<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Schematic below<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n

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SolderSmoke Podcast #249 is available: http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke249.mp3<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n

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There is also a video version of this podcast: <\/b>https:\/\/youtu.be\/5xyaYivtOhw<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n

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Travelogue: <\/u><\/span> <\/b><\/div>\n

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HAPPY VETERANS’ DAY TO PETE AND GRAYSON AND TO ALL THE OTHER VETERANS WHO ARE LISTENING. <\/b><\/div>\n
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Trip out to San Francisco. Sticker placed on the corner of Haight and Ashbury: See picture below. Note other sticker. Really Groovy! <\/b><\/p>\n

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Cuban Cacharreo! Andy CO2AFV’s Knack Story https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/10\/a-cuban-knack-story-and-pandemic-sits.html<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Bill’s DXCC-100. DONE. <\/b><\/p>\n

Tribal Wisdom: W1REX on HRWB https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/11\/listen-to-rex-w1rex-lots-of-tribal.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Pete’s Bench:<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n

Pete’s 6BA6 rig<\/b><\/p>\n

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Pete’s 6BA6 Rig<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n


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Pete Re-invents the Shirt-pocket SSB Rig<\/b><\/p>\n

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Pete’s remake of the ShirtSleeve Transceiver<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n

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Pete Builds Two Computers <\/b><\/div>\n

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Pete Adds a Second Band to his Homebrew SDR <\/b><\/div>\n
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SHAMELESS COMMERCE DIVISION: <\/u><\/span> <\/span><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

BEZOS BUCKS ARE BACK! PLEASE BUY THERE! <\/a>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><\/b><\/p>\n

Mostly DIY RF:<\/b> Work proceeds in the Oregon Silicon Forest on P3ST kit development. Todd is <\/span>confident the P3ST will be released on December 18th.Many other kits available now: <\/span><\/b>https:\/\/mostlydiyrf.com\/<\/a> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Sign up for the newsletter: https:\/\/mostlydiyrf.com\/subscribe\/<\/a><\/b><\/span> <\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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Bill’s Bench:<\/u> <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n

Rebuild of the 15-10 VFO (for improved Dial Spread) (with yet another QF-1 capacitor) https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/10\/dial-scale-linearity-spreading-out.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Why Building for 10 meters is harder: https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/09\/why-building-for-10-meters-is-harder.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Copper Tape shielding of 15-10 rig. <\/b><\/p>\n

Crushing Spurs with Better Bandpass Filters (see blog post) https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/09\/crushing-17-and-12-meter-spurs-with.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Another 15-10 rig in the works… for SSSS. Boards are accumulating… <\/b><\/p>\n

More problems discovered with the Herring Aid 5 Receiver . Lots of SS blog posts Comment from Rick WD5L. ) https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/10\/a-big-error-discovered-in-1976-qst.html<\/a> Did you try to build one? Did you succeed or did you fail? Please let us know. <\/b><\/p>\n

The Basil Mahon books (blog posts) https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/11\/basil-mahon-is-author-for-us-he.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

The Sunburst and Luminary book of Don Eyles (blog posts) <\/b><\/p>\n

The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill (blog posts) <\/b><\/p>\n

Spectrum Analysers: Tiny SA Ultra https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/09\/the-tinysa-ultra-spectrum-analyser-video.html<\/a> and Polarad 632C-1; <\/b>George WB5OYP gave me one of these spectrum analysers <\/b>(I NEED a manual! Does anyone have a manual or a schematic? ) : <\/b><\/p>\n

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Polarad 632C-1<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n


<\/b>Stabilizing the EB63A (with Pete recommended LP filters from e-Bay. <\/b><\/p>\n


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MAILBAG:<\/u><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

TRANSISTOR MAN T-SHIRTS! Thanks to Roy WN3F! <\/b><\/p>\n

Todd VE7BPO on AF amplifiers. Thanks Todd. <\/b><\/p>\n

Wes W7ZOI — Always a privilege to exchange e-mail with Wes. <\/b><\/p>\n

E-mail from Jay Rusgrove W1VD. About the Herring Aid 5. <\/b><\/p>\n

E-mail from Eamon Skelton EI9GQ! Amazing! <\/b><\/p>\n

HB2HB with Denny VU2DGR https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/09\/hb2hb-contact-with-denny-vu2dgr.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Nick M0NTV on diode matching for ring mixers: https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/10\/does-matching-matter-diode-matching-for.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Paul Taylor VK3HN on the new Elecraft CW rig. <\/b><\/p>\n

Dean KK4DAS fixed the noise in his Hallicrafters SW receiver. A long battle, finally won. <\/b><\/p>\n

Dean also in contact with G3UUR. <\/b><\/p>\n

Ramakrishnan VU2JXN helping me set up a backup of blog on WordPress. <\/b><\/p>\n

Mark KA9OOI noticed that SS podcast archive appears gone. In fact just temporarily relocated to http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/<\/wbr>podcastarchive.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

(SS PODCAST Archive temporarily relocated to http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/<\/wbr>podcastarchive.html<\/a>) <\/b><\/p>\n

Andreas DL1AJG – Crystal radio video. https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/10\/building-crystal-set-videos.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

George N2APB on the Herring Aid 5<\/b><\/p>\n

Grayson KJ7UM experimenting with Varactors and Thermatrons! <\/b><\/p>\n

Thomas K4SWL on Mattia’s DC receiver. https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/10\/mattia-zamanas-amazing-direct.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Bob Weaver of Dial Bandspread Linearity fame. Electron Bunker<\/b><\/p>\n

Mike Bryce WB8VGE QRP Hall of famer — he too couldn’t get the Herring Aid 5 working. <\/b><\/p>\n

Kirk NT0Z wrote about the Wayback machine. But this former ARRL staffer he also tried and failed to get the Herring Aid 5 going. Way back when… https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/kirks-herring-aid-tuna-tin-and-regen.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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New 15-10 VFO with schematic<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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Dial Bandspread (Before)<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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At corner of Haight and Ashbury<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New VFO for 15-10 Transceiver Schematic below SolderSmoke Podcast #249 is available: http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke249.mp3 There is also a video version of this podcast: https:\/\/youtu.be\/5xyaYivtOhw Travelogue: HAPPY VETERANS’ DAY TO PETE AND GRAYSON AND TO ALL THE OTHER VETERANS WHO ARE LISTENING. Trip out to San Francisco. Sticker placed on the corner of Haight and Ashbury: See … Continue reading “SolderSmoke Podcast #249 — Travel, Pete’s 6BA6 rig, Books!, VFOs, SDR, Computers, Spectrum Analysers, Transistor Man! MAILBAG”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,50,215,154,16,287,280,167,41,49,90,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15-10-transceiver","category-books","category-carney-todd","category-evans-grayson","category-filters","category-gale-todd","category-harper-rex","category-herring-aid-5","category-juliano-pete","category-soldersmoke-podcast","category-souleles-dean","category-test-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035","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=9035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9045,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035\/revisions\/9045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}