SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

  Bill WA5DSS built this beautiful receiver back in December 2024.  Somehow I failed to include him in our Hall of Fame.  Well, better late ...

Congratulations to Joe N9OK on his homebrew build of the SolderSmoke direct conversion receiver. Welcome to the Hall of Fame Joe.   Joe make...

On the flight to the Dominican Republic I was listening to Fraser Cain's interview with Dr. Christiaan Brinkerink.   I was kind of blown...

Fritz did an excellent job on his build of the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion receiver.  Fritz writes:  Hi folks!  First-time radio builder h...

It is a happy occassion whenever we get to announce a new member of the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver Hall of Fame.  And Dan KF5DAN...

So cool that Alan did this.  Here we see a rigrourous measurement of the MDS of our receiver, with a correction for the bandwidth.  Very nic...

https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/the-tao-of-bespoke-electronics/#comment-8142333 My comment:   Good post with good points about the under-app...

  Hall of Fame member Steve WD4CFN in Tennessee fired up his 40 meter Mchigan Mighty Mite (above) and made contact with ND4K in Georgia. FB ...

I have made 11 contacts using the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion receiver.  Ten of the 11 were after June 3, 2025. This was in very casual op...

Congratulations to Mike KM5Z on the completion of his SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver.  Welcome to the Hall of Fame.  Mike writes:  F...

  Steve WD4CFN has built a FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver.  CW reception video appears above.  From his QRZ page:  " I also ...

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...

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 ...

Kevin's receiver was beautifully built. And it sounds great.  Congratulations Kevin, and welcome to the Hall of Fame.  Kevin writes:  Th...

Chuck N4AVC's use of the frequency counter in his digital multimeter is pretty cool and innovative. And it is nice to have yet another r...