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Ian VK3MO and his daughter Rachel in 2006 I have known Mike WA3O for many years -- he sent me his HW-7 QRP transceiver, which I proudly disp...

  Some sad new arrived this morning via QRZ.com and the AM Window:   Jim Tonne W4ENE has passed away:  https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/...

Thanks to Walter KA4KXX for alerting us to this gem of a book.  L.B. Cebik is best known as an antenna guru.  I did not know that he also di...

I was really pleased to confirm that Dale Parfitt, W4OP, was inducted into the QRP Hall of Fame in 2025.  It would have been a travesty to l...

  I used to say that at a hamfest, you should get three things:  1) some parts 2) a tool, and 3)  a book.   I thought I had maxed out on boo...

About 17 years ago, when I set up the SolderSmoke blog, I wanted three columns.  Google Blogger/Blogspot didn't seem to have one, so I e...

Luis EA5BRE Both these words came up during a very nice conversation that I had this morning with Luis EA5BRE on 20 meter SSB.  I told Luis ...

  Thanks to the ARRL for the award.  It is much appreciated.  Thanks too to all the people who built this receiver.  There are more than 100...

This is kind of a re-run.  I came across it today on YouTube and thought it was pretty good.  So here it is again.    ------------------- De...

Congratulations to Karl EI9ITB for the successful completion of his SolderSmoke direct conversion receiver.  Above you can see Karl's re...

One of the first articles that I put on this blog was an NA5N post about the SA-612 -- this was originally posted on December 2, 2006:  http...

  So not everything that comes from AI is bad. This AI generated picture is pretty good.  That actually looks a bit like my rig.  And as som...