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our tower. HamTalk Live. Welcome back to HamTalk
Live. Tonight, Joe Eisenberg, KZeroNEB joins
us on the Orlando Amateur Radio Club and Hamcation
hotline. And thanks to ICOM America for sponsoring
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.com slash amateur. Joe Eisenberg, KZeroNEB is
from Lincoln, Nebraska and is well known for
his kit building expertise. He joins us regularly
on the show to talk about some kits and occasionally
this picture shows of Hamvention. He is the longtime
kit building editor over at CQ Magazine and often
makes presentations and offers kit builds and
HamFest conventions and club meetings. If you
see him around Dayton, he's the guy wearing that
Dr. Seuss hat. So Joe, welcome back. Thanks for
coming on again to talk about some new stuff.
Well, thank you, Neil. Always a pleasure to be
on the show and always enjoy being here. I have
some new kits to talk about, some that aren't
even available yet and some that are out now
and some that have been around a while. that
you might consider to have some fun with as well.
First off, I'd like to mention that in a couple
weeks, two weeks from Friday is the beginning
of Pacificon, and that's out in California, and
I will be there. I will be not only giving my
kit building talk, I will be helping Gordon West
do his demonstration at Gordo's breakfast, and
I'm also going to be helping with some hands
-on kit building, and then in the evening I will
be participating in the group kit building. at
the QRP activities at Pacificon, part of which
they're asking us to assemble a receiver kit.
It's a regenerative 40 meter receiver kit, and
I'm mostly done with everything but the toroid
on that. And that one is not for sale, but it's
going to be kind of part of a competition at
the QRP events and we'll build a matching transmitter
there and a programmable code practice set that
sends messages and things like that will be things
that we're going to be building there. So Pacificon,
I'm going to be really busy. So I really, really
hope that those of your listeners who are on
the West Coast that are planning on being at
Pacificon. If they see me walking around to say
hi, I'll be easily identifiable with the call
sign mask and the ball cap. I don't wear the
cat in the hat anywhere but Dayton. So Pacificon
is going to be fun to get out and about. So first
off, there's a couple of new kits that are on
the horizon from the four state QRP group. One
of which is a Cricut. Now we have the 80, 30
and 40 meter versions of this kit. There is a
new one that is being designed and modified from
the previous kits by NV5F Virginia in Texas.
And it is a one watt CW transceiver that has
a straight key and everything built onto it.
and it runs on a single 9 volt battery. And just
flip the switch on and plug it into an antenna
and a headset and away you go. And they have
a very unusually sensitive receiver for a simple
kit like this. And I'm able to hear S1, S2 signals
just fine with no trouble at all on it. And you
don't have to wind toroids because the coils
are etched onto the board in a spiral. Very unique
design and very easy to build. And it's kind
of a good beginner's kit as well. Let's see.
There's another kit that will be coming out also
from the same source and from Forest 8. And it's
going to be kind of a new version of the old
Heath Kit CR -1 Crystal Radio. And the newer
version of this will have a set of binding posts
that you can put your own different detector
diodes, or a co -hearer, or a cat's whisker,
or a razor blade detector. You can try any kind
of detector you want. But this is a very high
-Q crystal set. It was very popular in the 50s
and 60s when Heathkits sold these. And so he's
kind of reproducing that and improving on it
even more. So it's going to be a fun kit that'll
also be available through FourState. We'll talk
here a little bit about some tried and true kits.
One of them... Is I have one that I picked up
and I couldn't believe my fortune on this It's
a WM2 by Oak Hills radio and they do not put
this kid out anymore because the person that
ran Oak Hills radio passed away and It's a analog
meter and it's a it's a watt meter and it's got
forward and reflected on it Yeah, it's a watt
meter a watt meter Yep watt meter And it's a
watt meter That's right, and it's got a 10 watt
1 watt and 100 milliwatt full scale on it Runs
on a 9 volt battery or an external power supply
and so I'm going to be using that quite a bit
also in my kit builds and stuff just put a dummy
load on it and piece of coax and we can test
things with it. So that's going to become instrumental
in what I do now. Nobody has taken over the Oak
Hills radio kits yet, so we don't know if it's
going to be available in the future, but I'm
hopeful. Let's see, another kit that I ran into
when I was in Peoria at the Hamfest a little
over a week ago. Is a super TV be gone kit and
it was put out by make magazine It is sold now
on Adafruit ADA fruit is basically the way you
spell that on Adafruit and it's like $19 19 or
20 dollars something like that and what it is
is it's got pin microprocessor on it, runs on
two AA batteries, and it's got four very high
-intensity infrared LEDs. And there are two different
wavelengths of infrared. And the reason for that
is certain remote controls for TV sets use the
different wavelengths. And what it does is it
sends the turn -on, turn -off codes In sequence
of about every major make and model of television
It takes it about a minute and a half to get
through all the codes But in the first few seconds
most the common ones get sprayed out and this
thing this particular kit here goes at least
a hundred feet so if there's a TV that's being
obnoxious You can turn it off or turn it back
on from a long distance away I don't recommend
doing this in department stores or sports bars
or other public venues that have a lot of TVs
because you'll get caught because most surveillance
cameras, when they see the high -power infrared,
it shows up as a bright white or purple flame
coming out of your hand. because they're sensitive
to that. And you can try that with your cell
phone unless it's an iPhone, which aren't as
sensitive. Most of the Android phones, if you
point a TV remote control, you'll see a flickering
purple light in your camera. But if you turn
this thing on, it's just blinding to your phone.
And so you can imagine what it's doing with TV
sets 100 feet away. It can turn them off. This
kind of reminds me of another kit. What was that?
This kind of reminds me of a very famous kit
from back in the day. It kind of reminds me of
the Zapper. Because the Zapper would just send
out radar signals everywhere. And so radar detectors
would start going off everywhere and mess with
those. So now you've got like an infrared Zapper.
Yeah, exactly and actually somebody said that
it might affect Police radars because most of
them don't use RF base radar anymore. They use
infrared lasers and If if it sees this it's probably
overloads it be interesting to try it but it's
possible this might overload those as well, but
it runs on three volts and it it does its thing,
it will turn off that TV set from a long ways
away and turn it back on. And it's great for
diffusing arguments at restaurants and things
like that when they're showing political programming
of one side or the other. You can quiet it down
by popping the TV off. So it's called the...
Super TV be gone kit and it's available through
adafruit and Amazon or TV be gone with the letters
TV be and then the word gone .com You can get
it there as well. So it's a it's a fun kit very
simple to build and Even a beginning builder
won't spend more than about a half an hour or
so putting it together There's a new kit from
India that I recently got and I have not assembled
it yet. And it's called the EZ Bidex Single Sideband
Transceiver Kit. And it comes with the case for
$95. And it has a two -line LCD display, kind
of like the original Micro Bidex. And it is a
single sideband. Transceiver I don't know exactly
how much power it puts out. I'll have to look
it up I think it's about three to five watts
something like that but it's a very simple single
sideband transceiver and You could probably use
it on things like ft8 and things like that But
it's a great way to get started building kits,
too. It's a lot more complicated than, let's
say, the Cricut kit, which I think would be an
easier introduction to Transceiver. So I would
call this a more advanced kit, but they call
it the EasyBitX SSB Transceiver. And it comes
from amateurradio kits .in .in, because it's
from India, amateurradio kits .in. and you go
to the webpage and it says IN Kits, IN Kits.
And they have a lot of cases and things, accessories
for the micro bit X that the other guy puts out
from India. If you want information on the QRP
wattmeter, it's at morsex, M -O -R -S -E -X dot
com. And you can look up the WM2 QRP wattmeter
kit. It is not available right now, but hopefully
it will be. And let's see, what else do we have
for kits? There are a couple other more advanced
versions of the micro bit X coming I don't know
a lot about them, but I'm sure that once I do
I will let you know because those are fun the
micro bit X version 6 only takes took me about
45 minutes to assemble did not have to solder
anything and You basically put the parts in the
box and plug them in and do a slight adjustment
to calibrate it, and you have an all -band sideband
and CW transceiver. So lots and lots of things
in the kit world, Neil. Yeah, lots of cool stuff
coming out, and thanks for letting us know about
those. And if you're interested in those, we
can get you some links to all that stuff. I know
you've also got a hold of some new soldering
tools and kit building tools. So tell us about
those. All right. What's interesting is there's
been a lot of lesser expensive, but highly controlled
soldering stations that are available online.
And I found some at Hamfest, but I try to look
for tools that are easy for people to find. And
by far, one of the more universal stores to find
inexpensive tools has been Harbor Freight. But
up until now, they've basically had the highly
unregulated $7, $8 type soldering pencil, which,
you know, if you're soldering a PL 259 or something,
you know, that might work. But it's really not
designed for fine work on circuit boards. The
temperature is not controlled and the tip gets
corroded very easily on those and just does not
do a good job. So I always recommend temperature
controlled soldering stations and kind of the
rule of thumb is if it keeps the temperature
within plus or minus two degrees Celsius it's
probably pretty good. Well Harbor Freight has
such a tool and it's $49 .95. and it's called
the Schneider 5 to 50 watt soldering station
and it's in stock in most of the stores. I checked
online and they do have them around here and
I have one of these things. It's $49 .99 and
it is analog. In fact, the power supply you can
feel it's got a good size transformer in there.
A lot of soldering stations now are switching
supplies. This particular one is analog and does
not have a digital display and it does not have
the auto cool down feature that a lot of soldering
stations have now. But this one has a nice stand
with a sponge so you can clean the tip and it
holds the hand piece quite nicely. And like I
said it's an analog dial so you set it for about
630 degrees and away you go. You can replace
the hand piece, it plugs into the front. So for
$49 .99 at Harbor Freight, that's a pretty good
deal. And I found it to work quite well. I used
it at two different group kit builds and people
got their hands on it and I'd say it works pretty
good. It even comes with three different soldering
tips. So once again the Schneider 5 to 50 watt
soldering station that will be featured I think
in my November column in CQ Yeah, it's good to
know where you can go grab one because you know,
we've got some of our for other soldering irons
and stations that are kind of been our favorites,
but But you know if you need something in a pinch
why? It's nice to know that somebody has them
Yeah, that's why I say that in fact By far my
my favorite or the extronic ones which come from
here because they have digital display They even
have board holders now in the newer versions
they have a solder roll holder and they're a
lot lighter than this thing and But they are
a little more expensive. They're about $60 and
They have automatic cool down and they come right
back up right away. And I know you guys had just
a wonderful experience with the Xtronic USA soldering
stations at Yoda. In fact, they donated those
and that's a wonderful thing for a local Lincoln,
Nebraska company to do. Absolutely. They worked
really well. But, you know, I also made a trip
to Harbor Freight. day before camp to get some
tape measures and some other stuff. So it's,
like I said, it's nice to know that, you know,
there's something there. So if you need it, uh,
you know, chances are you can run out and pick
one up. Yeah. That's the idea. Cause not everybody
orders online and stuff. And, uh, but I do like
the, the Xtronic. In fact, I'm going to go out
there and take a look and see what's new here.
Uh, pretty shortly. see what else. There is also
a need for a soldering iron that's not run by
AC or batteries and this is because A lot of
times you're outdoors especially this time of
year in the fall where you're fixing your wire
antennas and getting them ready for winter. Last
winter we went down to 31 below zero and that
was not the windchill and this last summer we
went up to 109 degrees so your wires take a beating.
and especially with storms and things like that.
So a lot of times you have to solder connectors
and splice wire, you know, heavy antenna wires
and stuff outside. Well, your soldering station
like we were talking about is not the appropriate
tool for that because it cannot deliver the amount
of heat that you need to solder thick antenna
wire. So I always recommend a gas powered soldering
iron for that. And the reason is, is that once
you get it started, Wind going by it doesn't
necessarily blow it out. It may make it even
hotter and Harbor Freight has one of those too
for $24 .99 and It has things so you can use
it as a torch and other things as well as a soldering
iron and for 25 bucks That's it's quite a deal
you you refill it with your butane cigarette
lighter cartridge thing or you yeah, it's like
an aerosol and you poke it in the bottom and
you fill it up and it has the striker inside
it so that you don't need to mess with flints
or get a spark from the cap or something like
that or use a match to get it started. It has
its own internal piezo type spark generator and
the good thing about this is it generates more
than 75 watts of heat. Actually it's a hundred
or so more. And that's what you're going to need
outside, especially this time of year when you're
trying to heat up that wire and get that solder
to flow real nicely. So you get a really good
connection. So you're not going to get any noise
or anything like that. And that wire is going
to hold up when you splice it for the winter.
Couple of excellent tools there for getting everything
kind of ready for fall. I know I'm kind of Panicking.
I need to get some antennas up here before winter
gets here So I can have something to use this
winter. So it's a good timing to To know about
those because yeah, you got to do some soldering
outdoors, too All right. Well, we're gonna take
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Joke of the Week. My wife said I was spending
far too much time inside on the radios and wanted
me to take up a new hobby So she thought of astronomy
and bought me a telescope. I told her I'd look
into it This has been the ham talk live ham radio
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Tune in again next week for another joke from
Rick Have you done any astronomy Joe? Actually,
yeah There is a place called the Branched Oak
Observatory here in Lincoln It's actually northwest
of town at Branched Oak Lake and it sits on the
property that's owned by our Nebraska section
manager Matt k -0 Boj and It has a domed Observatory
and another building where the roof retracts
horizontally and It has a small library and video
center, and then it has a classroom, a large
classroom there for STEM activities. And a few
weeks ago, they had what's called the STARBQ,
which they bring out food trucks and stuff. And
you look at the sun and see sunspots and things
like that. And as soon as the sun goes down,
you can see Mars and Jupiter and Venus and things
like that and lots of. neat things I saw nebulas
the dumbbell nebula and things like that and
they have a new radio shack there that has dual
dipoles for 20 megs and that is so that they
can listen to the signals from Jupiter and they
call it the radio Jove project and they are also
putting in a 9700 and they're going to set up
for moon bounce and different other VHF modes
as well as being able to do an air risk contact
for schools. So it's quite a deal and a lot of
fun. They have concrete pads there. You can bring
your own telescopes out there and enjoy darker
skies outside of the city. Well, there you go.
Maybe Rick can look into that. It's a fun place
and like I said, it's run Least half of the people
involved in it are hams and it is on the ground
zone by a ham who's our a RL section manager
So it's it's really a fun place to visit and
they have activities all year round All right.
Well, let's see who's who's in the chat here
tonight or the Comments or whatever you want
to call it. We have Chris a for CB who says hello
and sent us the link to the to the Adafruit The
TV be gone. I think it was that actually sounds
like a good kid. I may have to go for that one
Thomas 86 TW says hi Neil and then Joe's always
interesting. So So thanks for being here and
he's a eubitix builder. And, um, we've got somebody
here on a, on an account. Uh, I don't recognize,
but anyway, so the Harbor freight always has
some good, some good bargains. So, uh, thanks
everybody for tuning in and, and, and Jill's,
Jill's kind of wondering if you, if you caught
the joke there, but I thought you did. Yep, yep
that I did Then I did and I'll tell you what
your football segment. I just only wish Nebraska
would make touchdowns that easy Now there's a
story behind that I don't know if you know this
story or not, but but the guy who made that recording
for me Is a former student of mine. I actually
got him started doing broadcasting And he now
is a broadcaster for the Big Ten Network and
some other outlets, Westwood One and some other
places. But the main reason I had him do that
is he is the announcer voice on the Madden series
of electronic football games. Ah, so that's why
it sounded familiar. So he's been the voice of
Madden football for three or four years now,
I think. But yeah, he does a lot of work on Big
Ten and Westwood One and I always enjoy listening
to him on the big time now after being on a little
public school radio station with me once a week
doing a baseball game. Well, he's come a long
way. Well, that sounds great. Maybe I'll see
him doing one of our games on the Big Ten Network.
Wouldn't surprise me. Like I said, I really hope
that we can score, at least this weekend, at
least as good as that call. Well, I know that
when I left the family room downstairs, the Bengals
game had just come on because we're here in Bengals
country. So that that one's playing right now,
but I haven't I haven't kept up with it. But
anyway We want to give you a chance to call in
and ask some questions or give us some comments
So now is the time to call so if you have a question
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tonight. We don't have another denial of service
attack on our provider. Thank goodness this week.
So we got through that one. You can also tweet
us. It's at HamTalk Live. And if you're listening
to us on WTWW or on the podcast edition, you
won't be able to reach us live because We're
doing this on Thursday night live here. So, um,
so we've caught up with a lot of the comments
here on Spreaker. Don't see anything over on
Twitter. So we'll stand by the phones, but, um,
I was hoping, um, Dave Swartz, uh, W zero DAS,
uh, would have a chance to call in and he may
yet, but, um, I just want to mention this, uh,
that WWVs one hundred second anniversary is coming
up uh... this weekend and so that the w w zero
w w v uh... special event call sign will be on
the air this weekend so make sure you look for
them and then uh... uh... no r j uh... uh...
is going to be out w y seven a a is going to
be out uh... doing some satellite activations
for that uh... as well as some uh... w seven
y uh... stuff so uh... make sure you check those
out and i saw one come across my my screen the
other day and i was so disappointed i didn't
have an antenna up i saw wbz had their one hundredth
anniversary out in boston and uh... grew up uh...
listening to them late at night and and wish
i could have uh... got a hold of that one but
uh... No antennas yet, so oh enjoy says they're
on 40 meters right now, so So very good pick
them up. I can tell you one of the things I wanted
to recommend before we go is When I fly I obviously
am not going to carry a big well or soldering
station or even one of the X tronics because
it's kind of big What I use is that they? If
you look at it online, you can find a zillion
of these things. They're tiny, pencil -sized
iron, very small. They run off of a small power
supply that looks like a laptop supply. And if
you look for a TS -100 or an OLED, OLED soldering
iron. They have different packages of them that
have the power supply or don't and things like
that and extra tips and you can get different
varieties of these but they all have in common
the fact that the digital display is in the handle
and it has up -down buttons and so forth and
there's a micro USB port on the back and it has
like I think it's like 16 bytes or whatever a
memory and what you do is you can tell it What
temperature you want for the default what you
may want for a high temperature? And your cool
-off cycle, you know if it's not being used because
when you pick it up it will heat itself right
back up just like the big soldering stations.
But when you look at these and see how small
and light they are, they are ideal for if you're
going to be flying somewhere and you want a soldering
iron that is the right type for working on PC
boards. So when I build kits at this particular
one, since I'm not doing a group kit build where
I have to supply all the tools like I have before
some others, If it's just for me, that's what
I'm going to bring along. And so I can put all
that into a little box in my suitcase and bring
that along. I also, for Pacificon, I'll be bringing
along some of my little CW key kits that I've
been making with the 3D printer. And they're
a lot of fun and you could do that as a group.
And it shouldn't take more than 10 or 15 minutes
at the most for each builder to complete a nice,
simple CW key. Well, there you go. And I like
that little soldering iron. That's a great idea.
I may have to check into one of those. Yeah,
it's really nice and very light, very small and
very, very accurate. Well while you're talking
about traveling one other thing I wanted to talk
about tonight here before we go is you know the
pandemic is still moving on starting to see a
little bit of a Downward trend now, but it's
still still pretty heavy in a lot of areas And
you know you've been doing some ham -fests here
and there. How are the kit builds going in the
middle of the pandemic? They were pretty much
non -existent for quite a while and now we have
a local group that meets between Omaha and Lincoln
and we do one about once a month. We'll be building
stuff. Like I said, Pacificon is resuming kit
builds. They have a much higher vaccination rate
and it seems that I think they still require
masks in all the buildings out there and so they've
deemed it safe to do this and so we will be doing
group kit builds there at Pacificon. But most
of the time I've been doing them online other
than my local club where we've been doing the
kit builds. and mostly through Zoom and things
like that. But there's a lot of people been touching
base with me about future hamfests and stuff
and meetings and doing local kit builds, which
I can do a lot easier now because I'm mostly
retired and can travel even during the week.
So I can get to a club, you know. Four or five
hours away easily and do one and drive home and
things like that Okay, very good. Okay. Well,
we're just about out of time here, but one thing
I wanted to do Because I usually get these questions
after you're you're on is Okay now what was that
kit and where do I get it? So I want to run down
where to get this stuff and already Thomas AD6TW
says please post the name of that pencil soldering
iron. So let's make sure we hit that one and
then if you would just kind of run down where
you can get this stuff that we've talked about
tonight. Well the pencil iron if you look for
a TS 100 that's just one of the models of this
type of iron and your Amazon will also show you
related items that are competitive ones to it,
but that are very similar and So if you look
for the TS 100 and it's not no dash in it just
TS 100 OLED soldering iron and look for that
on Amazon The soldering station and the gas powered
soldering tool that we were talking about earlier
is Harbor Freight and it's a Schneider tool.
The TV begone kit is from Adafruit and the Easy
Bits single sideband transceiver kit is available
from amateurradio kits .in. And the other kits
to look for the new ones will be at 4sqrp .com,
4sqrp .com, which is the 4 -State QRP Group.
All right, very good. Well, Joe, thank you for
letting us know about all this cool new stuff
and for making a bigger dent in my wallet this
week. Well, I'm glad I did that because that
means we're having fun with amateur radio and
that's what kit building is all about Absolutely.
Well, thanks for doing that and I'll put the
Links in the show description here after a while
once we get everything settled so that way they'll
be will be online as well. So thank you for everybody
that was listening and chiming in here tonight.
We appreciate that. And that's what makes the
show. So thanks for that. All right, Joe, last
words, anything? Other than Go Big Red at this
time of the season and hope always springs eternal
here. You know, we used to be way up on top and
not lately, but Hope Springs Eternal in Lincoln,
Nebraska during football season. And make sure
that you get your antennas fixed up and ready
to go for the winter. So a gas -powered soldering
iron is a must for working outside with heavy
antenna wires and connectors. And just make sure
you have fun and be safe and enjoy amateur radio
in the coming cooler months. Yeah now living
in the Cincinnati area now, you know, the phrase
is there's always next year Yep With the Reds
exactly that's what they're talking about a lot.
It was the Reds there's always next year and
Troy says sorry my align I gave you an L so Yes,
they did So Jill, it says, go big red. So there
we go. We got the, we got the Nebraska. You and,
you and Penny on, on big bang theory, the Nebraska
fans, right? That's right. That's right. All
right. Well, that is a wrap. for this week's
episode of HamTalk Live. Thanks to my guest,
Joe Eisenberg, K -0 -N -E -B, and everybody out
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