TT’s Jottings-Blog of VU2SWX

I have been reading a lot of radio related stuff this week.
Some of them are,

How to make a 40m reciever from a cheap chinese FM radio
Manual of TDA7088
Crystal Radio
Softrock40

Two other interesting articles I read were
Does Visual studio rot the mind and
Remembering Prof. John Kraus .

My ham licence is still elusive. I dont know how long it will take to come out from Delhi. Hopefully a month or a year .. 🙁

I am pretty excited about getting my ham ticket. I have been doing a lot of home work on principles of radio, antenna and propagation. I I bought a new Philips radio and fixed up a long wire as antenna on the terrace (my wife uses it to dry cloths too). I can hear lot of activity on 40 M, but most of them are in SSB. It seems very few hams uses AM in Kerala. I am planning to build a beat frequency oscilator tomorrow. Today i joined a hambrewers mail list. It also promises to be exciting.