{"id":9512,"date":"2016-04-09T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T08:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/04\/09\/soldersmoke-podcast-186-is-available-april-1-rap-up-pi-talk-from-pete-collins-and-raspberries-bills-analog-rx-visits-and-hamfests-mailbag\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:39:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:39:39","slug":"soldersmoke-podcast-186-is-available-april-1-rap-up-pi-talk-from-pete-collins-and-raspberries-bills-analog-rx-visits-and-hamfests-mailbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/04\/09\/soldersmoke-podcast-186-is-available-april-1-rap-up-pi-talk-from-pete-collins-and-raspberries-bills-analog-rx-visits-and-hamfests-mailbag\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldersmoke Podcast #186 Is Available — April 1 Rap Up, Pi Talk from Pete, Collins and Raspberries, Bill’s Analog RX, Visits and Hamfests, MAILBAG"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SolderSmoke podcast #186 is available: <\/b><\/div>\n

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http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke186.mp3<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n

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— April 1 WireWrapRap Rap-up. Feedback from participants. <\/b><\/div>\n

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— Bench Reports:<\/b><\/div>\n
– Pete talks about his Raspberry Pi SDR DSP rig. <\/b><\/div>\n
– Bill talks about on his Mate for the Mighty Midget Receiver and his R2 Frankenstein. <\/b><\/div>\n

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— A story from Pete’s youth: Cruising the “Miracle Mile” with a Heathkit “Ten-er.”<\/b><\/div>\n

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— Why do we need more RF amplification (in receivers) on 20 than on 40? <\/b><\/div>\n

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— Have you ever tuned the BFO freq in a superhet by the “sound of the noise?” <\/b><\/div>\n

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— A visit to Washington by Jonathan W0OX and family.<\/b><\/div>\n

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— Bill goes to Winterfest Hamfest with Armand WA1UQO<\/b><\/div>\n

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— Pete on the importance of balance (in life). <\/b><\/div>\n

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— Great interviews on QSO Today: Peter Parker, Grayson Evans, and Ashhar Farhan. <\/b><\/div>\n

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— MAILBAG:<\/b><\/div>\n
– Paul Darlington M0XPD has a new book about life, travel, and the Dayton Hamvention. <\/b><\/div>\n
– Michael AA1TJ QRV with a tuning fork at its 2,000th harmonic. <\/b><\/div>\n
– Jonathan M0JGH living dangerously with homebrew QRP in Italy. <\/b><\/div>\n
– Ben KC9DLM JoO with MMM<\/b><\/div>\n
– Stefan DL1DF needs 3.579 MHz rock “with mojo.” We have it for you OM. <\/b><\/div>\n

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The music for SolderSmoke 186 was written and performed (the bass lines) by Pete’s son Tim. Thanks Tim! <\/b><\/div>\n
Pete also suggested that we have some rap lyrics for this music, so renaissance man that he is, he composed some words. We are still looking for a performer. <\/b><\/div>\n


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Yo we solder no more \u2013 its wire wrap and cables<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
The cables connect to the small black box <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
hold on to your pants and pull up your socks<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
A cable goes here and a cable goes there <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Turn on the switch and its Shazam all software<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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SolderSmoke podcast #186 is available: http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke186.mp3 — April 1 WireWrapRap Rap-up. Feedback from participants. — Bench Reports: – Pete talks about his Raspberry Pi SDR DSP rig. – Bill talks about on his Mate for the Mighty Midget Receiver and his R2 Frankenstein. — A story from Pete’s youth: Cruising the “Miracle Mile” with a … Continue reading “Soldersmoke Podcast #186 Is Available — April 1 Rap Up, Pi Talk from Pete, Collins and Raspberries, Bill’s Analog RX, Visits and Hamfests, MAILBAG”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,66,284,24,36,54,179,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-april-1","category-farhan","category-hamfest","category-michigan-mighty-mite","category-parker-peter","category-phasing-rigs","category-raspberry-pi","category-soldersmoke-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512","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=9512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9514,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512\/revisions\/9514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}