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QSO May 8, 2026 with Lou EA3JE.  I was using my Mythbuster

May 12, 2026

SolderSmoke Podcast #264 is available for download: 

Audio:   http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke264.mp3

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This one is almost scary.  There is an amazing number of machines crammed into that workshop.  There is even more stuff in the drawers down below.  Honestly, I sometimes thought that we radio homebrewers would be the worst offenders in this regard, but I see here that most of us are not even close.  This guy wins!  
At the en...

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This 17 minute film provides a good but simplified description of the state of the art at the start of World War II. 
--  The description of how a signal gets to the input coil of a receiver is quite good.  Imagine if that coil had no good ground, and no counterpoise.  We see the importance of the counterpoise in this video:

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I was listening to the Old Military Radio Net this morning.  Rhett KB4HG checked in on Upper Sideband.  He was using a loaner TransWorld TW-100 "Fly Away" CW-SSB transceiver.   I had never heard of this rig.  It is very interesting.  See the W7UUU YouTube video above for more details. 
OM John W3JN called into the...

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