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  • [SSDN] Exorcism Lite -- Spur Suppressed on 17 meter Transmitter -- Spli

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    Exorcism Lite -- Spur Suppressed on 17 meter Transmitter -- Split TX/RX
    Station On The Air

    Posted: 03 Feb 2022 12:56 AM PST http://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2022/02/exorcism-lite-spur-suppressed-on-17.html

    I spent most of January in the tropics, away from my workbench.  This seems
    to have had a good effect on my 17 meter split TX/RX project.  As I was leaving, heading south,  I was thinking about several difficult options to deal with my spur problem (see previous blog posts). I thought about
    turning the transmitter into a transceiver by building a receiver
    board.   I thought about putting San Jian

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    The NCDXF/IARU Beacons (very useful website)

    Posted: 02 Feb 2022 06:23 AM PST http://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-ncdxfiaru-beacons-very-useful.html

     So there I was, innocently checking the lower end of the tuning range on
    my now 17 meter SSB Barebones Barbados W4OP receiver.  I had it tuned to
    the bottom of the 17 meter phone band.  All of a sudden I hear YV5B in CW.  It was obviously a beacon transmission. I had forgotten about these
    beacons.  Some quick Googling brought me to a very up-dated web site: https://www.ncdxf.org/beacon/The site

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