Online Radio and TV

I was watching North Carolina Now the other day on PBS and it reminded me of one of the great treasures here in the Asheville area that, believe it or not, I haven’t YET visited. That’s the Southern Appalachian Radio Museum. Hosted on the campus of AB Tech here in Asheville. They [...]

OK - more links, I seem to keep turning up some good resources for electronics info/supplies/etc. First up is Datasheetarchive.com which is a great place to find information on salvaged or “just laying around” components. I’ve rarely visited the site directly, usually when I google a part identifier I find they’re one of [...]

For quite a while I’ve had a tendency to take a soldering iron to the pc board of ______fill in the blank______ electronics that has “expired” or outlived its usefulness. Sometimes, it’s just to salvage the REALLY large (scary) capacitors from a power supply, sometimes though it’s a bit more ambitious than that, (blocking [...]

I’m not sure now if I’ve mentioned them before…. (I’ve listed so many different sites that provide kits or supplies for amateur radio.) But… they deserve a second mention if they were lumped in with a list of others…. Hobbytron has a huge selection of electronics kits, supplies, gadgets and gizmos… as I was [...]

Yep, there are still more amateur radio equipment suppliers I haven’t mentioned, ranging from antennas and kits up to off the shelf transceivers, etc. and test equipment. Ham Radio Outlet is a fairly big name with all sorts of supplies from premade cables to off the shelf transceivers/scanners/shortwave receivers, antennas, etc. etc. Then [...]

Another good link for electronics kits is rainbowkits.com some of these are audio/radio related. I came across them looking at scanner antennas.

Yes… I know, I’ve really delved into some pretty complex build from scratch ideas in a short time here. I guess, in looking at amateur radio, I’ve seen the $$ signs add up for the equipment I’m interested in and have started looking at what other options are out there. Kit building is [...]

Low power transceivers draws quite a bit of interest in amateur radio circles. Maybe there’s a charm in using the least to get the job done (which is after all one of fcc guidelines…) I think part of it could be that there’s a charm in not spending thousands of dollars… There are [...]

One of the sites I’ve pored over in the last few days is Harry’s Homebrew design with pdfs for everything from an fm transmitter to audio amplifiers… But, of more interest to me the last few days has been http://cs.okanagan.bc.ca/ve7ouc/eng/kc6wdk-mirror/, it’s a mirror of a site and is hosted in Canada. What’s caught [...]

I wanted to post this link before I forgot. There’s a nice directory of Amateur Radio internet vendors. Some of these sell kits, some sell components, many will sell complete equipment, but it’s a good place to start browsing. Here’s another place for kits.