Re: Best wishes to our friends in India
I agree that that this isn't the place for pushing a whining political agenda, but since some people have, some misstatements need addressed. Originally the ventilator that some of us worked to
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Bob Benedict, KD8CGH
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Re: Talk: Does price buy Performance or Satisfaction in an HF Transceiver? by Frank Howell K4FMH
Building a transceiver from scratch is indeed great fun. Soldering the components on, winding the toroids, aligning the IF, setting up the filters. Then testing it all for smoke, and seeing if it
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Trystan G0KAY
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#87958
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Re: Talk: Does price buy Performance or Satisfaction in an HF Transceiver? by Frank Howell K4FMH
Most of the features are just software codes. Your main transceiver can be really, really simple. Yet you could have a front panel crammed with buttons and knobs that connect the micro inside the
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Ashhar Farhan
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#87957
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Re: Homemade Circuit Boards
They look great. If anything, the local hams will be convinced that you really made if yourself ! I collect cellphones. In my collection are prototypes rhat never made to production. How can I prove
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Ashhar Farhan
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#87956
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Re: Talk: Does price buy Performance or Satisfaction in an HF Transceiver? by Frank Howell K4FMH
Reg -- we build stuff 'cause it is enormous fun. Buying a complete radio is very cool if you want to move on quickly to the software (Fldigi, WSJT-X, logging, award tracking, etc etc) for example.?
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Don - KM4UDX
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#87955
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Re: Homemade Circuit Boards
Hello, As promised, I made today my 6 adapters to correct the error on my PCB. You will tell me, why 6, the ubitx has only 5. As it is a personal fabrication, I added a relay that allows me to have
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Gerard
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#87954
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Re: Best wishes to our friends in India
Roger, China and India have been inches away from nuclear war for decades. I would hope that China would take the high roar with COVID relief for India. I also wish we had responded sooner, but this
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Jim Strohm
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Re: Homemade Circuit Boards
To avoid the tiny pores, you could the Cold toner transfer process. The most interesting variant of that uses Mosquito Repellent lotion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oRYKKIqBOE
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quad@...
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#87952
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Re: Best wishes to our friends in India
Best wishes to you and all India for a speedy recovery
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Lawrence Galea
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Re: Best wishes to our friends in India
Yes, best wishes and prayers for India and the whole world. I wonder if the author of the article ever thought that perhaps China should support other nations in this. Why is it when any other Country
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R. M. Baker <W8YN@...>
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Re: Talk: Does price buy Performance or Satisfaction in an HF Transceiver? by Frank Howell K4FMH
I look at the complexity of most modern rigs and wonder.... how many people use more than a few of the multiple facilities ? Could the average person remember how most of the settings work without
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R. Tyson
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Re: Homemade Circuit Boards
Hello, Hello, thank you for seeing that my Kicad design problem interested you. I¡¯ll get you pictures of my adapters as soon as they¡¯re done. For the manufacture of PCB, I use the transfer method
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Gerard
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Re: Firmware questions
Thanks for this link http://www.w0eb.com. I have started to study it and finds it can provide a wonderful uBitx with the choice of IARU regions, a faster answer to commands, keyboard and mouse control
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Pierre FK8IH <jb.gallauziaux@...>
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#87946
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Re: CW detector
Gerry, Yes, it's a great chip. I have one tuned to my 700Hz sidetone (lights an LED), so I know when I'm right on frequency with another station. Trystan G0KAY
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Trystan G0KAY
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Re: Best wishes to our friends in India
I think it's less the Thalidomide situation than politics.? $200 is a lot cheaper than any other price I've heard/seen - a LOT cheaper. Enough so that when I heard about the paperwork... I was
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Robert D. Bowers
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#87944
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Re: Shipping Question
Hello Bob, Your order is ready for shipping and will be done so in the next couple of days. We will inform you via a private mail the dispatch details. It usually takes between 5 to 10 days once
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Support HF Signal
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Re: Homemade Circuit Boards
It took a LOT of fiddling and diddling to get it to work. I too, have a laminator. Actually two of them. It was VERY fussy re: board cleanliness. The ultimate solution was a paper especially made for
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[email protected] <jerry@...>
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#87942
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Re: Homemade Circuit Boards
I have had horrible experience with homemade PCBs. The press and peel invariably smudged for me. One needs the PCBs only when using SMD with small footprints. They are hard to resolve with laser print
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Ashhar Farhan
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#87941
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Re: Homemade Circuit Boards
Chuck Adams has a video on YouTube using "Muppet" PCB fabrication. It works well. Jack, W8TEE This sort of thing is a good argument for homemade circuit boards.? I used to do it with pcb-express.? I
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Jack, W8TEE <jjpurdum@...>
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#87940
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Re: Best wishes to our friends in India
For those who don't know, Farhan and Gordon Gibby did Herculean work to develop a working ventilator that could be produced for about $200. Then, the FDA stepped in with massive amounts of paper work
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Jack, W8TEE <jjpurdum@...>
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#87939
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