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  We are in the Dominican Republic now.  My scanner is not yet working, but I thought SolderSmoke blog readers would like the introduction t...

A short time ago Paul VK3HN told us about the term bricolage. It seemed to capture much of the homebrew spirit.  This morning I heard Van Ne...

As the Commanding General of the Color-Burst Liberation Army, I have often wondered why so many of these 3.579 MHz crystals were made.  Heck...

  That, my friends, is the look of a steely-eyed homebrewer taking a break from the soldering iron by belting out a few noodled chords for S...

This is not really my thing, but the changes to 60 meter rules recently caused me to crack open some older Arduino/Si5351 and AD9850 VFOs, s...

My 60 meter rig in 2017 Here's a reminder of how long this took:  When Bob KD4EBM alerted me to the ARRL announcement that 15 kHz of the...

I came across this channel yesterday -- there is a lot of FB homebrew content here.  And it is partially in the Malayalam language of Kerala...

Raymond A. Heising  (1922) That is a question we get fairly regularly when we tell the other fellow that our rig is homebrew.  I often get t...

Here is a picture of Jim Williams taken through a Tektronix oscilloscope camera.  I never used one of these things, but Dean KK4DAS did.  He...

https://www.qsl.net/on6mu/rxsstv.htm Time for something completely different.  As a kid, I lusted after the ROBOT SSTV systems that were adv...

Sometimes the YouTube algorithm gets it right.  This morning it sent me the above video from the Computer History Museum about Jim Williams....

As always with Dave's builds, " 'tis a thing of beauty."  His photographs and documentation make it even better.   Please ...