Just go to http://soldersmoke.com. On that archive page, just click on the blue hyperlinks and your audio player should play that episode.
http://soldersmoke.com
Gee-willikers! This RCA movie is the cat's pajamas! Really great stuff. The guy who posted it on YouTube said it had been sitting on his shelf for years, apparently just waiting patiently for the broadband Internet.
I hadn't realized how labor intensive tube production was. Looks like every one of those fire bottles was, to a large extent, put together by hand. The contrast with the way solid state devices are produced is really striking -- the tubes seem like the product of artisans. And they somehow just seem to be more homebrew-friendly than modern solid-state devices.
Don't miss Part 2! Here we see "heroic hams" in action, saving people from serum shortages during floods, etc. Watch the policeman with the Tommy-Gun almost run over the kid on the bicycle. Yikes G-man, that was close!
The date on the film is 1942, and judging by the number of women shown working in the factories it does seem like a wartime film, but I was surprised by how infrequently the tube's role in the war effort was mentioned.
"SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" is now available as an e-book for Amazon's Kindle.
Here's the site:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004V9FIVW
Bill's OTHER Book (Warning: Not About Radio)
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The $0.35 Cent Wonder!
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In single lots of 1 you can buy this amazing integrated circuit for $0.35
and if you buy 10, less than a quarter apiece. Yes, they can be bought at
Newark ...
KB2PIZ: Activating Saltwater State Park (US-3262)
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by Mark (KB2PIZ) I’ve been on another business trip to Seattle and had some
free time to visit Saltwater State Park and complete an activation. I was
here ...
BARA Hamfest - Bergen County, NJ
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The semi-annual Fall BARA Hamfest is Saturday, October 11, 2025.
Always lots of fun, lots of vendors, lots of stuff, food, etc.
Go here for the details:
h...
Arduino controlled Useless box
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Recently I purchased a "useless box". You turn on a switch and an arm
immedietly pops out and turns the switch back off again. It was a bit
boring so I bou...
“The Jingy 40” – A Two-Transistor Regen
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Or “The One-Transistor Regen That Turned Into A Two-Transistor Regen” with
thanks to G3XBM and N0WVA. About 10 years ago, Doug N0WVA told me about an
impre...
The Communicator September - October 2025
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*Back With a Fall Issue*
This publication, "The Communicator" from Surrey Amateur Radio
Communications (SARC), serves as a bi-monthly electronic periodical...
W1WEF
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Episode 530 - Jack Schuster - W1WEF In this episode of QSO Today, we sit
down with Jack Schuster, W1WEF, whose amateur radio journey spans more than
73 yea...
The "George Batterson 1935 CW QSO Party" - Summary
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The first *George Batterson CW QSO Party* has concluded and the results are
in! The "*GB*" was introduced to honor George Batterson (W2GB), who along
wi...
KK4DAS MB 20 Transceiver Complete
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The MB 20 transceiver is now complete. The rig is a homebrew 10-watt
20-meter SSB transceiver. The VFO module was an ebay purchase of a
salvaged Yeasu...
A Curious 9 MHz Crystal from Mouser Electronics
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Just a quick post to share info about a good 9 MHz crystal sold by Mouser
Electronics.
I last purchased batches of crystals for xtal IF filters back in 2...
40m Pelican Case SSB Transceiver
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See YouTube channels for details:
http://www.youtube.com/c/CharlieMorrisZL2CTM
*Test code for the LCD and Si5351*
#include
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Hollow-State Design, 3rd Edition
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Hollow-State Design, 3rd Edition is available from: Lulu Press:
tinyurl.com/hollowstatedesign3 eBay: search for “hollow-state design”
Electric Radio bookst...
I Finally Bought My Dream Airplane
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Aviation has been a love of mine since I was a very little person. Living
in Nevada, seeing posters and ads for the Reno Air Races, specifically the
Texa...
Daylight Again – An all Analog Radio
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What’s all this? In 10 seconds, A high performance, 7MHz, 5 watt SSB rig
Draws just 24 mA of current 90 dB dynamic range, 80 dB close-in dynamic
range 3D ...
Modifications to the Dayton/FDIM-2019 Antuino
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The Dayton Antuino has sub-optimal performance. This is a short note on
improving it to an 80 db range of measurements. The trouble with Antuino
2.0 (the o...
Raduino as NBFM TX
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Here is a neat, 30 minute hack for your Raduino to turn the Si5351 into a
pretty stable, solid NBFM transmitter. The hack is to add a varactor diode
in ...
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