{"id":9874,"date":"2017-04-01T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T04:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/04\/01\/soldersmoke-podcast-195-we-need-some-help-bitx-60-ssb-history-tribal-socketry\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:28:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:28:25","slug":"soldersmoke-podcast-195-we-need-some-help-bitx-60-ssb-history-tribal-socketry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/04\/01\/soldersmoke-podcast-195-we-need-some-help-bitx-60-ssb-history-tribal-socketry\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Podcast #195: (We need some help!) BITX, 60, SSB History, Tribal Socketry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/b> SolderSmoke Podcast #195 is available. Link appears below (scroll down)<\/span><\/b>

<\/span><\/b> We\u2019ve got a problem: <\/span> <\/span><\/span>Pete Juliano and the QRP Hall of Fame \ud83d\ude41 PLEASE HELP! <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n


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BENCH REPORTS<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Pete Releases Smoke (wiring harness)<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Pete’s DifX on 60<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Architecture and Dual Conversion (uBITX: uses ALL THREE clocks on the Si5351)<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
The Big Kahuna <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
ON HACKADAY with Philco SB100 SEE! QRP!!!!!<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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BITX60<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Cap Stack Hack mod (with leads)<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Let the smoke out of an Si5351 (shorted output) Several actually. <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
(Same day delivery zone for Amazon — but no drones or parachutes yet.) <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Installed scanning switch<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Observations on 60. All the weird bands have a 6 in them: 160, 60, 6<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
The good: 100 watt limit, wire antennas <\/span><\/b>
The bad<\/span><\/b>: Kind of cliquish– like 75, not much of a CQ band. Channels. Not much activity. <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Met Josh KE8CPD on 40.<\/span> <\/span><\/span>BITX 40! <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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TRIBAL KNOWLEDGE:<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Socketry: How to keep BNC jacks from spinning loose? <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Do you heat shrink? <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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Feel Tech Sig Gen might not have blocking cap at the output. <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Speaking of which, when I spoke of the Ne602, I mostly meant blocking caps, not bypass caps.<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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How come they don’t have a cable TV channel devoted to radios? They have HGTV? Why not HBTV? <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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REPORT FROM WINTERFEST<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Bad weather. Tailgaters wimped out! <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Combined forces with Armand WA1UQO. <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Met up with Charles AI4OT.<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Acquisitions: 1\/4 phono jacks, carbon mic, vero board, disc caps, weather radio, <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
LARGE collection of Electric Radios from Armand. Wow. <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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Electric Radio notes: 1st Fifty Years of Sideband 1991 articles by Jim Musgrove K5BZH<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Why LSB on 75? — so AMers couldn’t follow to top of band<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
W2, W6, W8s liked phasing, W3, W4, W0 more into filter rigs. <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Early SSB guys turning on carrier and talking AM hams into SSB RX. <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Kelvinator Refrigerator rigs.<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
A reading on the homebrewing of SSB rigs. <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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Tony Fishpool on QSO Today! Pete mentioned prominently. <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Good Hacks from ND6T on BITXHacks, Stockton Bridge<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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SENDING IT BACK SolderSmoke Podcast #195 is available. Link appears below (scroll down) We\u2019ve got a problem: Pete Juliano and the QRP Hall of Fame \ud83d\ude41 PLEASE HELP! BENCH REPORTS Pete Releases Smoke (wiring harness) Pete’s DifX on 60 Architecture and Dual Conversion (uBITX: uses ALL THREE clocks on the Si5351) The Big Kahuna ON … Continue reading “SolderSmoke Podcast #195: (We need some help!) BITX, 60, SSB History, Tribal Socketry”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,28,64,41,87,31,49,23,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-60-meters","category-bitx20","category-clubs","category-juliano-pete","category-qrp","category-radio-history","category-soldersmoke-podcast","category-ssb","category-ubitx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9874","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=9874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9876,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9874\/revisions\/9876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}