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Random Ham Stuff
The Soldersmoke Direct Conversion Receiver was the first time I had ever built anything with a permeability tuned oscillator (PTO for short). I had never previously been that interested in [...]
Note – A number of folk have mentioned experiencing difficulty leaving comments underneath posts on this blog. Unfortunately, I don’t how to remedy that, or even whether I could. It’s [...]
With many of the projects described in this blog, the idea to build them had been in my head for a while (often years) before it was finally acted on. [...]
NOTE: In the following post, I’ll be referencing component designators according to the original schematic, which is in the SST manual, available here, on Ken WA4MNT and Karen KF4EEL’s QRPBuilder [...]
Well gosh. About a month ago, it was feeling as if every builder in the homebrew community had built the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver, apart from me. That’s a slight [...]
After finishing the two-transistor “Jingy 40” regen, I was looking for a little transmitter to use with it. I cycled through a few different designs, before deciding to “play it [...]
I’m not a collector of vintage headsets. 2 years ago, I purchased a high impedance Western Electric headset for listening to crystal sets. I also bought a set of “Baldies”. [...]
Back in 2010, I became interested in legal micropower broadcasting under the FCC Part 15 regulations, and assembled an SSTRAN AMT3000 kit transmitter for the AM broadcast band. I had [...]
Or “The One-Transistor Regen That Turned Into A Two-Transistor Regen” with thanks to G3XBM and N0WVA. (Note – if reading this post on a computer, you can click on any [...]
No new construction projects here, I’m afraid, and none planned for the foreseeable future, though I have made some exciting and worthy acquisitions. A couple of years ago, I was [...]