Nov 6
Here's an awesome really basic receiver you can homebrew with bits from your junk box.
The very simple receiver for the whole shortwave band.
Regenerative control, tuning, band selection, it has everything.
Even a fine tuning by moving your hand towards the coil!
Read more at the authors website.
As noted by Charley VK2ZYZ:
This rig will never be you main rig, it is just a novelty but it is a blast, if you have a junk box and an hour to kill give it a go, build one with the grandkids
Something for a rainy day in the shack.
Jul 25
Been looking around for some kits to build and one of the places I came across was Small Wonder Labs.
I'm a bit taken by the Rock-Mite CW transciever, even a kit building noob like myself should be able to have a go at that.
The PSK kit for something like 30m might be interesting, although some of the stuff that you can do with SDR makes it a bit pricey for a once use type kit.
I dropped an enquiry email to Dave K1SWL asking about stock of the RockMite and I had a response in aobut 30 minutes, pretty good customer service.
Will make an order soon I think, mmm the smell of solder smoke, can't wait :)
