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  This video is almost enough to get me to work on my old HW-101.  Pete N6QW has been working on an HW-32A monobander. Some of the info in ...

The video above is really a lot of fun.  We are approaching the 20th anniversary of the SolderSmoke Podcast.  Our first upload was August 21...

Today Hack-A-Day has an unsually good report on Britain's Voluntary Interceptors. I was especially touched by the story of the guy who p...

Thanks to Rick W1DSP for sending us his "proof of life" video.  It is indeed alive!  Congratulations Rick!  Welcome to the Hall of...

We were very pleased that Phil W1PJE was able to visit yesterday. Phil is the Director of MIT's Haystack Observatory . He is very know...

At around 0630 EDT on June 7, 2025 I heard K1OA calling CQ on 7030 kHz CW. This was exactly where I had a crystal.  I called him, but he did...

I nspired by K1OA and KA4KXX , I put the SolderSmoke DC receiver to work on the CW portion of 40 meters. At first I used a very (perhaps ov...

We were already very proud to put Alan Wolke W2AEW in our Hall of Fame .  But Alan put icing on the cake this morning by making his own vide...

Ashish N6ASD is a really good guy.  We started watching his projects when he was in San Francisco .  He does a lot of  fundamental radio bui...

T his goes to prove what we have been saying all along:  this receiver is not a toy!  It is capable of operating as part of a real 2-way ham...

L6 is the 88mH toroid Messages on Discord about the need to knock down higher frequency audio response in the SolderSmoke direct conversion ...