I love old hi-fi stereo equipment, especially the larger stuff which really had a lot of personality. While doing some research on Klipschorns, I discovered a striking reinterpretation of the classic Klipsch design:
An Altec Lansing multicell horn in place of the integral horn on the classic design. That looks incredible, really commands the room!
Check it out: retro vintage modern hi-fi
I’m working on another Bose 901 Series 1 equalizer. It looks to be the same manufacturing run as the first one I wrote up last July, uses the same components, and those components look like they’ve had the same failure mode.
The rather dubious EM-branded capacitors have the same discoloration on the top middle I saw on the other Bose, as well as on the Farnsworth K-262P which had been repaired once before. I’m curious what the physical failure is, as the discoloration would suggest to me overheating, but that seems very unlikely in this circuit and application. Newly manufactured replacements aren’t likely to have this problem as the film technology has improved significantly in the last 40 years.
Reader David Forsman, WA7JHZ, read the round-up of RTLSDR upconverter choices and sent me a photo and build schematic of one he designed which was featured in the January 2013 issue of QST, the ARRL‘s monthly magazine.
This circuit up-converts frequencies between 2.3 MHz and 43 MHz by 125 MHz (127.3 MHz to 168.0 MHz) for driving the Realtek RTL2832 quadrature decoder DVB-T device with Elonics E4000 tuner chip with USB 2.0 output. It also incorporates an input bandpass filter (BPF), diode limiter, RF attenuator, and amplifier.
The filter’s response curve:
David reported he’s built two of these up-converters with good sensitivity on 20 and 15 meters. I think I have all the parts except the crystal and coils to build this on hand, so this might be a good excuse to sting my antenna up again and try it out. Thanks David for sending this in!
I’ve had this Grunow 460 sitting in my queue pending for a little while and it’s finally on it’s way home looking great! There was a fun extra bit of detective work to identify and solve the issues that came up along the way.
The Grunow 460 was made by the General Household Utilities Company at the height of the Great Depression, in 1934. I follow eBay for Grunow radios specifically and saw a few of these for sale last year and have been curious what they’re like to work on. The cabinet materials do reflect being made at a time when many consumers were incredibly cost-conscious, and this was the most economical radio offering they made that year. The General Household Utilities Company did deliver an attractive design though with the contrasting color diamond in the center of the grill cloth and a light bevel around the dial face.
The design is a very simple 4-tube superhet receiver using the tubes 6A7 6F7 42 80. It’s functional, and would’ve worked well enough for daily use in cities with near-by radio stations. The 6F7 tube contains both the pentode section IF amplifier stage and a triode section Detector/1st Audio stage. There’s a lot of space under the chassis but a lot of components are stacked into one side.
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The chassis tags were in pretty good shape.
Unfortunately, one tube broke in shipping, the 80 rectifier. It turned out, with further testing, that all 3 other tubes needed to be replaced as well, so this radio got a full set of replacement tubes and should be good to go for many years.
Intake checks revealed a few problems and evidence of dubious repairs using highly variable components:
This connection to a floating ground lug wasn’t even soldered.
an IF transformer was loose
The exposed antenna coil was broken in several places and partially unwound. Fortunately, there are universal broadcast band antenna coils available, so I ordered one of those from my supplier and continued working.
I replaced the antenna coil with the universal model, attaching it to a terminal strip by a solder lug and reusing the existing screw and chassis hole:
You can clearly see where the power transformer was replaced previously in the radio’s life – the new one uses a vertical core; the stock Grunow transformers use a horizontal core and the bell housing end fits through the chassis. There’s no difference in how the styles work, just a different shape. The replacement is held on with only 2 of the screws since the base won’t line up anymore, but it’s a small transformer and the two mounts are plenty strong.
Also note there’s only one visible IF transformer can. Most radios have two (or more) of those cans which provide shielding and protection for the IF transformers. This Grunow has a single shielded IF transformer with the second IF transformer unshielded under the chassis, another way they saved costs in manufacturing and passed the savings onto the consumer.
This radio needs about a 6′ wire antenna attached to the white wire antenna terminal on the back. The radio was missing tube shields when it came to me, which were absolutely necessary for proper operation, but I was able to supply them from stock. They’re important to keep the tubes from picking up interference directly, or introducing interference to the other tubes – some generate a fair amount of noise if you leave them unshielded, and you’ll end up with a radio that squeals but can’t receive much else.
Not pictured, I also replaced the cord with a new polarized cord, the old one was cracking.
That did it! It was time for an alignment. I peaked up the IF trimmers which were off by a fair amount – the volume increased significantly after the adjustment – and fine-tuned the other adjustments. The dial tracks quite nicely within 10kc after the adjustments. I didn’t take photos of this process, unfortunately – doing an oscilloscope stage alignment on this radio would take a lot of time but not give any benefits over doing the classic signal generator/output meter checks.
At this point, I had the radio up and playing and was getting ready to send it along when it cut out. Back to troubleshooting. It turns out a section of the candohm resistor had opened. It’s likely it just failed at a terminal lug as nothing was shorting anywhere else in the radio to have caused a damaging current draw, it just died. Fortunately I had resistors on hand to replace it and mounted a terminal strip to use as new tie points.
The antenna coil is pretty cheaply made, and the solder lug was only weakly glued onto the cardboard coil form. The glue separated when being adjusted, so I was left with the last resort of wrapping it with electrical tape. It’s not readily visible and doesn’t harm the operation and is the most cost-effective fix for the problem.
This one will polish up nicely and look great on its owner’s shelf! I really like working on these Grunow radios – they have interesting cabinet designs, circuitry that usually has a couple of interesting tricks to it, and very good published schematics. I’ll be fixing up my World Cruiser when my workload dies down a bit.
Up next are two more Bose 901 Series 1 equalizers, a Philco 66, and a Silvertone 1708! Expect to see new articles more often than the last couple of months.
I picked up this Grunow 750 “World Cruiser” radio from eBay a little while ago for an incredible deal and now it’s time for it’s turn on the bench. These radios are fairly uncommon and frequently sell for several hundred dollars, so I was excited to be able to pick one up for under $100 with shipping.
It’s in remarkably good shape, despite the eBay seller packaging it in form-fitting cardboard with no padding whatsoever and the chassis unsecured in the cabinet. The fact it arrived as anything other than a pile of broken wood, bent metal and shattered glass astounds me – it was by far the worst packing job I’ve ever seen an Internet seller provide.
The radio looks like it sat somewhere very dirty, and possibly was briefly inhabited by a rodent. There are a few chewed-on spots, and some fiberglass insulation was dragged into the cabinet. It doesn’t look like whatever lived there was in it very long, however, as there’s no rust, the damage is very minor and there wasn’t a lot of “fill” material brought in.
I set to cleaning and examining. One IF transformer is missing it’s grid cap, that’ll be a bit annoying to replace.
You can see around the edges where it looks like a rodent did some chewing.
It looks like it also chewed through the output transformer leads.
This is a big radio with a big chassis to match, accepting 7 tubes 6D6 6A7 6F7 75 76 42 80. It can receive 2 shortwave bands and the AM Broadcast Band, features a tuned RF amplifier, and double-tuning on the broadcast band for extra selectivity. For the double-tuning, it uses a 4th segment on the tuning capacitor. It’s very rare to see a 4-segment tuning gang on a superhet and it’s a definite indicator of quality.
The underside is built a bit like a tank, with multiple sets of shielded coils. Fortunately, the sides of the chassis are bolted on allowing easier access to the components. It would be impossible to work on otherwise.
With the sides off and the coil covers removed, it’s a lot easier.
I’ll be working on the radio this week, testing all the coils and transformers and then replacing the out of tolerance resistors, new capacitors, and repairing the IF transformer grid cap and output transformer leads. The radio will also need a new cord as the old model was badly frayed and chewed and so it was discarded.
Stay tuned.
A friend I’ve made through the antique radio community is also a repairman himself, but ran into some scheduling difficulty with a piece of work on his bench and sent the chassis over to me for service: an RCA 9X561, from 1950.
This RCA is a simple and straightforward radio which came to me with 75% of the work completed; my task was to finish off a few odds and ends to bring it up to 100% condition. This turned out to be a bit more interesting of a task than I’d suspected it would be.
The radio, speaker and chassis arrived alone without the case.
Two capacitor leads were broken, as was a lead from the second IF transformer.
I replaced it with a new segment of wire to replace the now too short broken one.
One of the capacitors which had come disconnected was C3, a 0.05uF bypass capacitor located physically near the oscillator section shown in the center of the photo below.
I reconnected and set out the process of final tests.
The IF chain was fine, but the radio seemed not to want to oscillate. I went through a fair bit of troubleshooting – inject the IF signal into the cathode and grid of the 12SA7 mixer to replace the local oscillator, swapping known-good tubes, using another radio to find an oscillator beat note – nothing at all. The odd part was that it wouldn’t work even with an injected oscillator signal – something which should definitely get the radio going again, and generally identifying the problem with the oscillator.
This one is very simple. A set of coils, a resistor and a capacitor. The coil was intact on both ends and the resistor and capacitor were within tolerances, so I took another peek under the circuit. It turns out that I’d made a mistake reconnecting the broken lead. C3, the bypass capacitor, was connected at the junction of C2 and R2 (indicated above in red) which had the result of completely bypassing the local oscillator to ground – including when I would inject a signal from the generator on pins 5 or 6. The correct location for the connection was the lower left circle indicated in green.
I moved the capacitor from the converter tube over to a tie point on the secondary of the first IF transformer, and the radio pulled in stations instantly.
That missed connection was an easy way to kill a few hours troubleshooting, but it all turned out in the end. The radio is back to my friend to return to his client later this week.
I’m getting ready to sell some of my radio collection to make room for new ones, but until that happens I’ve been under something of a self-imposed moratorium on new purchases. This one came up on eBay a little while ago for a steal so I cheated a bit and had it sent my way.
This is a huge tabletop radio – a “grande” coffee from my local coffee shop is provided for scale. It’s a 7-tube model using the tubes 6D6 6A7 6F7 75 76 42 80 – the AM Broadcast Band and the lowest Shortwave band are double-tuned with a single-stage RF amplifier for extra selectivity; on the two higher shortwave bands the second stage of tuning is disabled to increase sensitivity. With an 8″ speaker, it should sound pretty great. There are a couple of minor scratches on the front that will buff out nicely, and it’s otherwise original – this should be a nice, fairly quick radio to bring back to life.
I was lucky enough to find a very rare, high-end radio for sale on Craigslist and jumped on it as quickly as I could. This particular one is the 1934/35 General Electric model M-125, their highest end offering for that year. And it’s both visually and electrically very impressive.
It’s in a stately (and very heavy) burled walnut cabinet with closeable front doors to hide the controls, and the small feet common to the mid-’30s console radio styling. It’s just as impressive with the front opened up:
Inside there are a total of 7 control knobs: Sensitivity, Volume, Treble, Tuning, Bass, On/Off, and Band Switch. On these old radios, more knobs means a higher-end radio with a more complex circuit and there aren’t many other radios with this variety. Some of the complicated McMurdo / Silver and Scott radios have similarly complex control schemes, but it’s quite rare to find surviving examples of such high-end pieces.
The radio uses the square “clock dial” face, with a large double-sided pointer to indicate tuning position and a smaller sweep second hand in the center for fine tuning. Tune the main knob to approximately the right frequency, then fine-tune with the second hand and mark the position in your log for next time to perfectly tune in the station. A couple of trim pieces are gone on this radio, but they should be able to be replaced or refreshed with new ones without too much trouble – everything else is complete.
Electrically, the radio is the same as the RCA 281 – they share the same chassis, but with a different cabinet and dial face design. This radio is a 12-tube receiver with a tuned RF stage, separate oscillator, two IF stages, and push-pull drivers (76) coupled two a pair of push-pull 42s for ~10W of audio output. It can receive the AM Broadcast Band, the Long-Wave band (<375 KHz, not much broadcast there anymore) and AM Shortwave stations up into the high reaches of the VHF band.
All the tubes are present, although it’s missing grid cap shields on 3 of the tubes in the back – although this is more cosmetic than functional – and all the labels are also in excellent shape.
Unfortunately, as you can see in the top right of this photo (somewhat in the shadow), the power transformer on this radio is toast. It’s spit out its tar from the bottom. Someone during this radio’s life plugged it in before repairing it electrically and it suffered catastrophic electrical damage. I’m lucky that I have a large stock of transformers lying around, but I will have to dig them out of the depths of storage and a transformer replacement is never a small job.
With the transformer gone, and the speaker field coil used in the power supply circuit, I hope the speaker isn’t also damaged – but I do have a suitable replacement or two lying around if necessary.
One interesting choice is in the huge cabinet, why they went with a small 10″ speaker design. The Tone Equalizer cabinets on the sides are resonant chambers which will help with fidelity a bit, an early nod towards evolving hi-fi designs, but for such a high-end piece the audio seems a bit under powered.
I’m very much looking forward to starting work on this radio next month. It will likely be a several part series, as there are a few big jobs to deal with – transformer replacement, recap, and alignment. Stay tuned!
1/31/2026: This was originally written in 2012 and hasn’t been updated since 2014, but it’s preserved here in case any of the information is useful and to show the state of the ecosystem when RTLSDR first came on the scene.
The RTLSDR is designed for higher frequency operation, so if you’d like your RTLSDR to be able to access many of the amateur, short, medium and longwave bands you’re going to need an upconverter. There are quite a few choices for an HF converter / up-converter are now available to shift signals into the tuner’s frequency range. These range from schematics up through built boards, and will cost you between about $25-75 depending on features.
If you’re new to RTLSDR, the Hobbyist’s Guide to the RTL-SDR can help you get off the ground with tips and tutorials, and learning how to use the software that goes along with it for a number of fun projects. You’ll need an antenna, too; there’s a great e-book on Antenna Basics to help you get started matching an appropriate antenna to your RTLSDR – or step up to the ARRL’s Antenna Book for a much more detailed look.
Need a dongle to go with your upconverter? They’re around $11 to start. The base model has a fair amount of frequency drift (some users have reported 6ppm – 78ppm, depending on the specific dongle). This can be a problem for sensitive and narrow-band applications, but there are way more stable options for only a little more money, like a 1ppm TCXO oscillatormodel with SMA connectors for only $25, or an even better 0.5 ppm model in a shielded enclosure for around $60 for the best performance. I own the 0.5 ppm model, it’s great!
1. Probably the most popular and complete converter out there today is the NooElec Ham It Up v1.3 which has a large amount of documentation including layouts, and can be purchased assembled and ready to go for only $55. It features a bypass switch and the optional hardware noise source is an interesting, if possibly seldom used, feature. Ham Radio Science has a rather extensive review of the original revision and were pretty happy with it. There’s also an excellent W2AEW video illustrating the operation of the dongle and the filters on the various RF paths.
NooElec also has an optional Extruded Aluminum Enclosure Kit for the Ham It Up which provides helpful shielding and a very polished look for just a few dollars more. Get both and it’s a high end product for under $100. There’s enough room in the case to mount the tuner dongle and maybe a low noise amplifier, too.
2. Low-cost integrated units have recently become available. These started showing up on Alibaba and eBay from Chinese sellers a year or two ago, but were often difficult to get your hands on. Now, they’re widely available and ship from within the USA. Often found under several different brand names, this particular Usmile receiver contains a 100 MHz upconverter and RTLSDR receiver in a single shielded enclosure, with a switch to select direct or upconverted input, offering full coverage from 100 kHz – 1.7 GHz. Decent looking package has a block diagram of the inner workings printed on the side, too. Starting at around $90, not a bad deal!
3. CT1FFU v5 HF converter is a brand new iteration of the long-standing design which was originally one of the first released. This model features an improved smaller PCB size, improved filtering and am improved ring mixer, and phantom power to eliminate a power cable when attached to certain compatible RTLSDR receivers. The LO is still 65.520MHz or 106.250MHz which might interfere with an FM Broadcast band in some countries, such as the U.S., but there is some filtering incorporated to eliminate that. The price is reduced to 55 Euro shipped worldwide with tracking.
4. JA7TDO has produced the Soft66RTL, including an RTL2383u+R820T and an HF converter with a 50MHz local oscillator frequency in what looks to be a nice, 3D-printed case capable of receiving up to 30MHz, or 50MHz and above bypassing the converter.
5. BA5SBA in Hong Kong is now selling an RTLSDR and Upconverter package in nice looking metal housing with a built-in switchable upconverter and what looks like a stock antenna that might actually be useful. It looks to use a 40 MHz crystal for up-conversion based on the specs. It’s also cheaper than I’d have thought, and has free shipping from Hong Kong. Available here on eBay from kuyaya520’s store.
6. From the UK, SDR(X) allows full-range reception with a new upconverter with specialized pre-filters (0-2, 2-6, 6-11 and 11-30 MHz) or a single 30MHz low-pass filter. The cost includes the up-converter hardware and an RTL-SDR dongle. This would be a great choice for EU residents! SDR(X) from VC Vintage Components.
7. If you’re looking for a more rugged commercial solution, High Sierra Microwave has an upconverter (FCD-1-55-UC) with a 133MHz LO frequency and BNC terminals with an integral amplifier. I’m a fan of converters whose LO frequency shifts the entire HF range above the FM broadcast band in general and the shielded enclosure will definitely cut down on noise. Looks like it’s suitable for mounting outside at your antenna’s feed point, and it also looks like you’re going to pay for those features. I’d love to evaluate one of these if I could get my hands on one.
8. W9RAN developed a RANverter kit which was featured in the January 2013 issue of QST magazine, using a 125MHz local oscillator. It’s gotten a lot of great buzz on the Internet and offers good performance and even a little bit of conversion gain through the mixer. No materials available on the Internet for it, sadly.
9. If you’re comfortable speaking Dutch, or just with Google Translate, you can buy the Kit RF Converter for RTL SDR Sticks DC – 65 MHz. Unlike most other models, this one HF up-converter takes a BNC 50 Ohm antenna input and has an SMA 50 Ohm output with a 100 MHz oscillator frequency and built-in protection. This one also looks like a great starter kit with through-hole components and large coils and looks easy to build. You can also purchase the completed assembled kit in an enclosure, which also includes a power cable and SMA-MCX adapter cable. Looks interesting.
10. Kalle over at DGK Electronics has a great looking compact 100MHz HF converter designed to fit inside of a pre-made RF shielding box. It uses the ADE-1 mixer and an ASEM oscillator. It has some of the most complex filters and great filtering on the incoming power line, it probably performs very well. He describes the filters on his page, and there’s also a full schematic available. There’s a photo of a pile of boards, and he says there’s still some available, one might be left! DGK Electronics
11. David Forsman, WA7JHZ, sent me a photo and plans of his 125MHz HF up-converter with a diode limiter, attenuator, and amplifier all in one from plans featured in Jan ’13 QST magazine. Click through there to the article for a schematic and explanation for more details and a full schematic. Thanks, David!
12. Matt Dawson GW0VNR has a very interesting HF converter using more discrete parts than some of the other ones I’ve seen. It uses hand-wound transformers, an actual discrete diode mixer, and a Saronix oscillator running at 106.25 MHz. It uses a total of 23 parts and looks like it would be pretty easy to build. He doesn’t have any photos of the completed board, but does have a full schematic, overlay, transfer mask and Gerber files for the PCB. I’m pretty sure I have all the parts to build this one in my box as well. It looks interesting and simple. Check it out.
13. Cross Country Wireless produces a nice looking up-converter which was reviewed in the August 2014 issue of Radio User magazine. It looks like a pretty minimalist design without a lot to go wrong, and solid build quality. Available shipping from the UK, this most recent revision includes an antenna isolation transformer to protect against damaging spikes and transients and uses a 125 MHz local oscillator to ensure no FM Broadcast interference.
14. Bryce Salmi KB1LQC built a very rugged-looking clone of George Smart’s above with some modfiications dead bug style.
15 Romanian amateur Alexandru YO2LDK built a simple HF upconverter circuit using an NE602. This has an amplifier, limiter, regulated supply and 100MHz frequency like several of the ones pictured, but the circuit itself looks quite different. The amplifier stage is ahead of the limiter, which looks like this one is offering a constant gain versus the adjustable gain some of the others have offered. It looks like this one has more tunable components, which means a little more work to dial it in. I didn’t see any photos of the completed product.
16. Nick G0CWA built an interesting switchable upconverter design, complete with instructions and board layout PDFs.
17. Cycle 24 Kits has a Multiband Converter available which uses a very small assortment of components and five switchable band-pass filters for 40/20/17/15/13 or 80/49/40/20/15/10 meters. Looks like a simple, no-frills kit that should be very easy to assemble!
18. German amateur radio club Ortsverband Husum M04 has an SDR-Konverter with a very nice looking enclosure designed around the familiar NE602 mixer. The page is in German, but it looks like a quality product!
19. From the comments, I’ve learned about the SV1AFN Design Lab’s DC-55MHz upconverter for an RTL-SDR receiver. It features selectable bypass, selectable LNA featuring about 20 dB of gain from parallel Mini-Circuits Gali-74+ amplifiers, and a design with excellent filtration on the input and local oscillators to reduce harmonics and interference, it should be a very good performing upconverter-amplifier. It’s a kit with SMD parts pre-soldered; you wind a few transformers and connectors or you can purchase it assembled.
20. TT RF Tech over in Japan has a great looking little converter board. You’ll want to use Google Translate as the page is in Japanese, but he’s distributed hundreds of these kids to Japanese amateurs and it looks like it’s got solid filtering and quality components. This one is also based on the commonly used ADE mixer which turns up in a lot of these RTLSDR projects. Looks like a quality build and is available on Amazon for Y 6,800.00.
21. Dutch amateur ON1BES developed a very nice looking upconverter with switchable HF and VHF inputs. He’s included a lot of material – component listings, schematics, simulations of the filters, board masks, band plans…just about everything you could possibly want to build your own. Some experience reading Dutch is required, however.
22. UK hobbyist site CosyCave sells a Budget HF Converter with a 50 MHz LO frequency for R820T, FC0012 and FC0013 dongles. The 50 MHz LO is below the tuning range of the E4000, so it won’t work with the older dongles. It’s an extremely minimalist design – a crystal, mixer, and a small handful of passives for filtering. It’s powered by USB and has a pair of SMA connectors. I’m not sure I’d recommend it for U.S. use, though, due to the LO frequency and the filtering. Looks like a nice little design, though, given the limitations! The price is right, too, at just £9.95.
With these choices, there are plenty of options for getting HF signals into the VHF ranges for use with the RTLSDR. It’s not difficult to modify these plans for even higher fidelity and accuracy, such as by increasing filtering on the power lines, building a shielded enclosure, improved antenna systems, and more.
Personally. I’m using the NooElec 0.5ppm RTLSDR, with the Ham It Up upconverter in the NooElec shielded enclosure, with a separately purchased RFBay LNA. It works well in the city, and really shines when you string up an even longer antenna.
If you have a design you’d like to see featured here, let me know!
Edit 10/29/2015: Removed KN0CK mini-dongle which is no longer available. Added Usmile integrated receiver-converter.
Edit 10/24/2015: Updated links, added book, removed JaniElectronics converter which is no longer available.
Edit 12/1/2015: Added JA2GQP’s minimalist SDR upconverter.
Edit 10/29/2012: NooElec offers “Ham It Up v1.0” upconverter which looks to be based on a different design, and seems very high quality.
Edit 2/2/2013: Better info about the Opendous Upconverter, KB1LQC’s DIY Upconverter, and WA7JHZ’s upconverter.
Edit 2/3/2013:Added 9A4QV HF Upconverter SDR UP-100, G0CWA 2012 upconverter, YO2LDK upconverter.
Edit 2/13/2013: Added Vandijken Elektronica upconverter and W9RAN RANVerter 2.0.
Edit 2/19/2013: Added KN0CK SMD HF Upconverter
Edit 2/25/2013: Added Matt GW0VNR’s Upconverter and the DGK Electronics HF Converter.
Edit 4/13/2013: Added JaniLab converters, High Sierra Microwave converter.
Edit 4/25/2013: Informed 9A4QV Out of Stock – Thanks Adam!
Edit 5/14/2013: Ham It Up v1.0 > v1.2, Now Ships with 125MHz Crystal
Edit 8/13/2013: CT1FFU v5 replaces CT1FFU v3.1, and some copy-editing!
Edit 9/2/2013: Updated to reflect availability of some items.
Edit 10/21/2013: Added Soft66RTL
Edit 1/28/2014: Added KN0CK Rev 5; more updates coming soon!
Edit 2/22/2014: Added Cycle 24 Kits and DARC-Husum SDR-Upkonverter and SV1AFN
Edit 9/12/2014: Cleaned up and removed 4 no longer active items.
Edit 9/26/2014: Removed Paulino Sato’s TA7358AP-based converter as he has removed all access to the dropbox link containing his plans; added Cross Country Wireless and TT RF Tech upconverters.
Edit 10/4/2014: Added W2AEW Ham It Up video.
Edit 10/10/2014: Added 1ppm TCXO dongle link.
Edit 11/11/2014: Added Budget Converter
Edit 5/21/2015: Added BA5BSA
Edit 5/23/2014: Added SDR(X)
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Visitors From Around the World
I’m working on a couple of projects – another Bose equalizer, and a Grunow radio – but they’re not quite finished to post photos, so in the mean time I’d like to post some meta commentary for a moment.
WordPress provides great tracking statistics on visitors, including mapping them by country. In the last quarter, my site has been viewed by visitors from 122 unique countries – over half the world!
Most of my visitors are predictably from the United States, but I’m fairly surprised by the wide showing of the rest of the world. A total breakdown:
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