Just go to http://soldersmoke.com. On that archive page, just click on the blue hyperlinks and your audio player should play that episode.
http://soldersmoke.com
A few days ago I shared an e-mail from John N8RVE on his re-build of the SW-40. John used a "Muppet" board, Muppet being a combination of Manhattan and Ugly techniques. But there is nothing ugly about it really. I joked in the title of the blog post that the beauty of this technique is almost enough to get a homebrewer to abandon the Manhattan technique. Now, I was born on Manhattan island, and I went to Manhattan College, and I have been using the Manhattan technique for many years, so there is a lot of homebrew inertia at work here. But that SW-40 looked good. John mentioned that Chuck Adams K7QO has a series of YouTube videos on how to make Muppet boards. This morning as I waited for the bands to open up, I decided to take a look.
Wow, they are really great. I couldn't stop watching them. I kind of "binge watched" the whole series. Chuck Adams is a really great teacher. There are lots of great homebrew tips in those videos, and not just about the boards. I NEED one of those new G3UUR crystal testers, the version that also gives you ESR! I WANT a laminator, an infrared thermometer, some Krylon clear, and pool chemicals! And a harmonica reed tuner!
I've been sort of planning my next rig. It will be a version of the BITX. But having recently built two BITXs using the Manhattan technique, I kind of feel the need to do something different. I am planning to use some different circuitry (termination insensitive amplifiers) and MAYBE an Si5351. Perhaps plug-in filters. But now I want to also move forward in terms of building technique. I want to Muppet!
"SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" is now available as an e-book for Amazon's Kindle.
Here's the site:
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We’re a garage band, we come from garageland
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Hi, FastRadioBurst 23 here letting you know of a couple of our shows this
week. On Sunday 28th April 2024 at 0900/1300 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then
at 2000...
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Was recently running the MUTT in the field on RTTY and voice, posted a
video over on the tube at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLxH3j8mzYs
Will have th...
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Power standing wave null? discussed the “Power Standing Wave” concept
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At times we need to include some form of metering in our homebrew rigs. No,
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mete...
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Peter, VK3YE, recently posted a video of a pair of 433Mhz transceivers he
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probl...
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I don’t need to explain the attraction of low power operation; if you’re
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*The RX-888 (Mk2) and external clocking*
*Figure 1:*
The RX-888 with external clock input *(right)*
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I came across my Collins 51S-1 in a big junkyard in Ankara, Turkey around
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By DX EXPLORER
DX EXPLORER
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A Simple Speech Processor
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