{"id":9474,"date":"2015-06-13T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/06\/13\/soldersmoke-podcast-177-bicoastal-termination-insensitivity-unphased-by-phase-noise\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:36:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:36:01","slug":"soldersmoke-podcast-177-bicoastal-termination-insensitivity-unphased-by-phase-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/06\/13\/soldersmoke-podcast-177-bicoastal-termination-insensitivity-unphased-by-phase-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Podcast 177  Bicoastal Termination Insensitivity Unphased by Phase Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMGP2986.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMGP2986.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong>SolderSmoke Podcast #177 is available:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong><\/strong> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke177.mp3\"><strong>http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke177.mp3<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong><\/strong> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong>13 June 2015<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong><\/strong> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong>&#8212; PETE JULIANO INDUCTED INTO THE QRP HALL OF FAME<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong>&#8212; Bench Reports: Bicoastal Bilateral Success: A Tale of Two Tias<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong> Only 3 TIA rigs in the world? It depends&#8230;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong> Relay improvements in the BITX Builds<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong> Straightening out amp problems<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong> The many uses of copper foil <\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong> No phase noise or bleed-over troubles<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong> Plug-in filters<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong> Adjusting TIA amp gain on RX and TX (too much is not good!) <\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong> Getting the BITX to work with the CCI amp<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong> Allison wisely prescribes 3 db pads <\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong> Curing hum by moving the power supply (duh!)<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong>&#8212; Farhan&#8217;s New Minima &#8212; Crying out for an Si5351? <\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong>&#8212; Mike KL7R&#8217;s Web Site is Back (thanks to W8NSA) <\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong>&#8212; <\/strong><strong>SolderLex: <\/strong><strong>Rigs or Radios? We go with Rigs<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong>&#8212; A ham rite of passage: Build a Dipole! <\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong>&#8212; What does your shack look like at the end of a project?<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong>&#8212; MAILBAG <\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong> The CORRECT pronunciation of Belthorn<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong> Multiplication and Division by 4<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong> W8NSA, Vietnam, a Transoceanic and a 9V Battery <\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong>\ufeff<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PeteHOFPlaque.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PeteHOFPlaque.jpg\" width=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMGP2983.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMGP2983.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SolderSmoke Podcast #177 is available: http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke177.mp3 13 June 2015 &#8212; PETE JULIANO INDUCTED INTO THE QRP HALL OF FAME &#8212; Bench Reports: Bicoastal Bilateral Success: A Tale of Two Tias Only 3 TIA rigs in the world? It depends&#8230; Relay improvements in the BITX Builds Straightening out amp problems The many uses of copper foil &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/06\/13\/soldersmoke-podcast-177-bicoastal-termination-insensitivity-unphased-by-phase-noise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SolderSmoke Podcast 177  Bicoastal Termination Insensitivity Unphased by Phase Noise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193,66,60,41,272,49,379],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx-digi-tia","category-farhan","category-hayward-wes","category-juliano-pete","category-kl7r","category-soldersmoke-podcast","category-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474","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=9474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9477,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474\/revisions\/9477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}