Jason Milldrum on January 10th, 2010

I finally got fed up with my lousy custom coded main website (at www.nt7s.com), so I've decided to rip it down and install a CMS. Don't be surprised to see some strange things going on there over the next days/weeks. I'm going to get all of the important content back up there. It may take [...]

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Jason Milldrum on January 8th, 2010

I got a bit of cash for my birthday last month and it was burning a hole in my pocket for a few weeks. I decided I needed a good set of CW paddles for my station, since the only keying devices that I have (that work) are all straight keys. It was a bit [...]

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Jason Milldrum on January 5th, 2010

Thanks to some prompting from a Willamette builder who inquired about some performance issues with his rig, I was able to identify an error in the bill of materials which causes a significant degradation in receiver sensitivity. Fortunately the fix for this problem is very simple. Audio preamplifier collector resistor R49 was incorrectly called out [...]

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Jason Milldrum on January 4th, 2010

Software Defined Radio is a technology which has always intrigued me, but something I just haven't been able to devote a lot of time to yet. I've built an early model SoftRock and studied the basics of the theory. Not too long ago, I built up my own little version of a 40 meter SDR [...]

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