Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Joined two 80m nets with the double sideband transmitter

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Great fun tonight. First I joined the Tasmanian tech net with the double sideband transmitter and later the Macedon Ranges net. Good reports...

Victorian country train radio chatter

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With all the government radio going to digital trunk radio I was surprised to find that communication between driver and guard, and sometime...

A visit to the National Communications Museum

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Today Nigel, VK3DZ, Ralph, VK3ZZC and I visited the National Communications Museum in Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria. It's a very modern...
Friday, February 14, 2025

Double sideband is back (well, maybe)

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There has been some discussion on the Soldersmoke direct conversion receiver Discord chat area about a possible next project for builders ...
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Tech talk on ABC Radio

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Last night on ABC's Nightlife program Philip Clark and I discussed AI going mainstream, in that it was featured in Super Bowl ads, the U...
Sunday, February 09, 2025

Soldersmoke Direct Conversion Receiver - Lessons learned

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There's nothing more satisfying than listening to a radio you've built yourself. The Soldersmoke Direct Conversion receiver has give...
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Thursday, February 06, 2025

Beware of FNIRSi transistor testers

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The Soldersmoke DC receiver project has been great fun but also quite frustrating. I got it working nicely if I used an external amplifier b...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Soldersmoke DC Receiver - excellent build-a-thon on Discord

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Discord is a kind of chat board where a group of people can create topic channels and basically talk back and forth in real time - if they ...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Tech Talk on ABC Radio

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Nightlife Tech Guru Peter Marks, a software developer and technology commentator from Access Informatics, joined Philip Clark on Nightlife t...