As loyal follower of the Soldersmoke podcast, I was aware of the SolderSmoke DirectConversionReciver Challange (check out the dedicated discord server channel) and end February 2015 I decided that I was going to take it on. 

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Starting the new year, I have added a Guestbook to this website.
if you want to write into the Guestbook, check out this page.

A lot of OM's have pets in there shack, read the story about my shack pets. My shack has shack pets. 

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Every year in December VERON VRZA Twente organizes a self-build exhibition which I try to visit. I could drive with a fellow OM to the club house and I brought some project with me to show. 

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On hackaday there is a post with the question : Are Hackers the future of amateur radio?

I shared my thoughts on this.  continue reading . . . 

Hans Summers releases a new product: the QMX+ multi-band multi-mode transceiver.  I didn't hesitated for a moment and ordered one.

The construction is documented in this page.