<div dir="ltr"><p>                      Episode 176 of the amateur radio podcast <strong>SolderSmoke</strong> is now available<br><br>                      In this edition:<br><br>                      Bench Update:<br>                      - Pete releases some magic (amplifier) smoke<br>                      - Pete&#39;s new termination-insensitive transceiver makes first contact<br>                      - Bill goes Yaesu (well, just a filter)<br>                      - Juliano Mill-Pad boards<br>                      - Termination Insensitivity is not a personality disorder!<br>                      - Flip those Bilat Boards!  Pete&#39;s cool technique for bilat building<br>                      - Bill&#39;s project notebook and stage testing<br>                      - Installing the W6JFR EMRFD SBL-1 Bal-Mod Mod<br><br>                      AREA 5351:  Myths, Urban Legends, and Conspiracy Theories about the Si5351<br><br>                      A Rule of Thumb for Sideband Inversion<br><br>                      Dongle Madness and the Dangers of Dongle Modification<br>                      - What is a dongle?<br>                      - 24 MHz to 1.7 GHz right out of the box<br>                      - Modification for 0-29 MHz<br>                      - Tapping the IF of a Drake 2-B<br>                      - Getting another one for VHF-UHF<br>                      - Dongling Meteors, Satellites and Airplanes<br><br>                      SPRAT cover AD9850 in 1988!  Three cheers for SPRAT (and QQ and QST).<br><br>                      Elecraft&#39;s new Rig<br><br>                      Listen to<br><a href="http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke176.mp3" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke176.mp3</font></a><br><br>                      Soldersmoke blog<br><a href="http://soldersmoke.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">http://soldersmoke.blogspot.co.uk/</font></a> </p></div>