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Send Me the Code!

My time is limited these days as I write this at 4AM. I often get emails, and I really try hard to be responsive for requests for information.

In one email I received yesterday, the text read " Send me the code and the schematics." Nothing more and no other clues. I sent a blistering response to the effect that while I have successfully built over 55 different SSB Transceivers one thing I have not mastered was mind reading.

Often these requests come from offshore with English being a second language. But that is no excuse for not adding just a few more words like P3ST or the MC1496 DCR. 

I also suspect this individual is a "wannabe homebrewer" with little skill in building a SSB transceiver. He thinks having the code and full schematic will make up for the deficit of actually knowing how to fabricate an SSB transceiver. In many ways it is rocket science to put a rig together and have it move beyond well it kind of works. BTW I don't do full schematics as everything I build is done with modules.

In the future I will not respond to such emails. It is a waste of my precious time! So, if you author an email saying send me the code without further explanation -- It goes in the trash!

Deal of the day! About $70 from Lauren Sanchez's boyfriend gets you the 4GB RAM Model. 


Raspberry Pi 5 SBC.

For about another $20-30 get the special heatsink and the 5.1 VDC 5-amp wall wart.

If you ever move from analogue ancient technology rigs and build a homebrew SDR this is a perfect jewel to host the QUISK software from N2ADR. If you own a Hermes LITE 2, this is a perfect host machine.

My Current radio is a Hermes Lite 2 (remote about 100 feet away) + RPi4







Them that know can make it go.

73's
Pete N6QW



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