I'm going to veer off my normal blog fare a bit and get into a topic which might be slightly controversial, but has been buzzing around the ham blogosphere lately. I make it a personal goal to not delve into political topics in my ham radio activities, but I've been finding this increasingly hard given [...]
I just saw (via the Southgate Amateur Radio Club feed) that the first edition of WorldRadio Online has been released. I've made a quick scan of it, and my initial thoughts are that I'm impressed. Right off the bat, you notice that it looks better. The same general format is carried over, but it's in [...]
There are times in any creator's life where the muse takes a temporary leave. This is one of those periods in my career. Part of the problem is my incredibly screwed up sleep schedule. Working 3rd shift is hard enough, but having a large amount of time off that allows you to drift back to [...]
On qrp-l.org and Twitter, I've had the pleasure of running across Jeremy Chase, N1JER. He's just getting into operating HF CW, kitbuilding, and homebrewing, and it's always a treat to get the perspective of a younger guy who is just getting into ham radio. I guess I'm interested because there's not a ton of us [...]
A few days ago, I built myself a simple 30 W dummy load out of Caddock power resistors. As I mentioned in the previous post, I was doubtful about the readings that I was getting from my LP-100 (not that I doubted the LP-100 itself, just my calibration of it). Tonight was my first night [...]
You can never have enough low frequency decoupling in an audio amplifier with 100 dB voltage gain. You can never have enough voltage regulation on the VXO you are using to feed your diode mixer. Not enough and you get all kinds of nasty low frequency oscillations in the receiver.
First off, I want to apologize for the sparse updating on the blog lately. The muse has not been my friend in the last few weeks. I try to keep the content mostly original, but perhaps I will have to turn to that time honored blog tradition of short blog posts repeating something cool I [...]
