Ladies and gentleman and vastly more interesting genders: we got him. We finally caught Schrodinger's cat.
Known a few engineers that this would appeal to. Although for some there would also be a rather large hammer involved on there somewhere😀
For when one is a bit bored with surface mount components!
soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2026/04/home...
Just had a look on Dave Richards AA7EE wordpress site via the Soldersmoke website where he is highlighting a very nice little PTO kit from qrpbuilder.com/pto_mechanism
Rather clever mechanical solution to the increasing problem in sourcing decent air spaced capacitors for VFO's
Just saw this interesting approach to a 70cm fox hunting transmitter, all rather neat
hackaday.io/project/2034...
It's nice to see solutions that recognise that things do not necessarily need to be complicated. As I said, rather neat👍
A while ago there was some light joking on here about the various locations there were for "on the air" activation's, seems someone has decided to take up one of the ideas up
qrper.com/2025/06/toil...
if you are interested in beautifully built radio equipment the web pages of Dave Richards AA7EE are very much worth a look.
aa7ee.wordpress.com/2024/12/23/m...
Just seen a post on the solder smoke blog about the ham radio Ireland magazine. Some interesting stuff in the current issue that might be worth a look
soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2025/07/ham-...
