SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

  You gotta love the name, right?  It sounds like some sort of psychological condition.  Perhaps someone who just doesn't care  if his g...

It is time to put aside (again!) all of the heated ideological arguments about the power level that defines "low power."  Just sit...

  Earlier this month Paul VK3HN had a very interesting blog post about adding Automatic Gain Control to Termination Insensitive Amplifiers ...

SolderSmoke Podcast #232 is available -- Crank it in Robert! http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke232.mp3 Featuring a guitar intro by Pete ...

  It really pays to check Wes Hayward's web site .  I looked yesterday and found something that we really need:  A termination insensiti...

At first, I didn't want to believe it.  I was in denial.  I wanted to shoot the messenger (in this case, the Antuino). How could my ...

Ram did a beautiful job on this 40 meter rig.    You can read about this project here:  https://vu3xvr.blogspot.com/2018/10/homebrew-...

Al W8VR After a day of happy tinkering with the Direct Conversion receiver I've been working on, I turned off the soldering iron an...

Hello, I have put up my SMD version of the TIA amplifier boards online, in case someone wants it. The files are here: http://...

Thanks again to Farhan for visiting us.   It was great to see his reaction to my humble implementations of his great designs.  I got him t...

This was the icing on the cake.  Ruben AC2RJ up in New York was monitoring as I called CQ with my BITX Digi-Tia last night on 40 meters.  ...

This was very cool.  I got on 40 SSB this afternoon with my trusty Digi-Tia.  I heard a station saying he was running 5 watts... Hmm, c...

I got on 40SSB this evening and called CQ with my BITX DIGI-Tia.  Hooray!  Jerry W0PWE answered me with HIS 40 Meter DIGI-TIA.  Hi...

This is so cool.  Jerry W0PWE has built a magnificent BITX.   With a digital VFO and Termination Insensitive Amplifiers, I think it quali...

There is a lot of radio history in this shortwave transmitting station.  I came across it tonight with my BITX DIGI-TIA rig.  It was on 7...

A couple weeks ago I ran into Jim KW4KD on 40 meter SSB .  Jim is in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  He was running a modern "black box...

Very cool!  Reports on new phone rigs keep coming in.  It is great to see them in their "still out on the bench" condition.  ...

Last week Steve sent us a picture of his Straight Key Night rig which consisted of a homebrew thermatron transmitter and a TIA BITX as th...

On Saturday October 24,  Dean AC9JQ (Indiana)  and Rick N3FJZ (Maryland) made contact on 40 meter SSB using Si5351/TIA BITX rigs.  FB!: Bi...

This weekend brought another HB2HB (Homebrew to Homebrew) contact.   We have been following with interest the 40 meter transceiver project...