Novel SSB transceiver Design with only Seven Transistors

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When Pete Juliano N6QW sat down to design a sideband transceiver for the 20 Meter (14 MHz) ham radio band, he eschewed the popular circuits that makeup so many designs. He forged ahead, building a novel design that he calls Pete’s Simple Seven SSB Transceiver, or PSSST for short.

What makes the PSSST so simple is not only its construction but the low component count. The same circuit using four 2N2222A’s is used on both transmit and receive.

Hackaday - https://hackaday.com/2021/11/20/pssst-heres-a-novel-ssb-radio-design-with-only-seven-transistors/

GB2/GB100 Scotland Special Event

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Special event stations GB1002ZE and GB2ZE will be active to commemorate centenary achievement by Paul Godley's, 1921 DXpedition to Ardrossan, Scotland.

Paul Godley, 2ZE, was able to receive the first transatlantic shortwave amateur radio message from the amateur station 1BCG located in Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.A. The received message was recorded in Godley's logbook on the 12th December 1921 at 02:52 GMT which was hastily composed by his 1BCG colleagues:

“Nr 1 de 1BCG words 12, New York. Date December 11, 1921, to Paul Godley, Ardrossan, Scotland. Hearty Congratulations. (Signed) Burghard, Inman, Grinan, Armstrong, Amy, Cronkhite.”
— QSL via GM0SEI

More details - https://www.transatlantic.org.uk

All UK and Crown dependency licensed radio amateurs may use the suffix "/2ZE" with your own callsign between December 1-26th, 2021

Oceania DX Contest Breaks Record

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The Oceania DX Contest broke the record for the number of logs that have been received this year with 1174 SSB logs and 725 CW logs being received by the deadline of 31st October 2021.

The Oceania DX Contest Committee is also pleased to announce that the raw scores (before adjudication and log checking) are now available.

The 2021 SSB Raw scores can be accessed - http://www.oceaniadxcontest.com/ssb-raw-scores-2021

The 2021 CW Raw scores can be accessed - http://www.oceaniadxcontest.com/cw-raw-scores-2021

The full and final results will be available once the log cross-checking and validation work is complete. Thank you all for your participation and we look forward to seeing you all again in 2022!

Oceania DX Contest Committee - http://www.oceaniadxcontest.com