SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

"The Electrical Experimenter" sent to me by Nick M0NTV reminded me of Hugo Gernsback.  Many of the radio books I have on my shelf ...

RTTY Model 15 Hello Bill, Greetings from a fellow ham in Northern Virginia. I have enjoyed the SolderSmoke podcast for a few years...

Michael mentioned this article in the Comments section under yesterday's post.  March 1966 issue of 73 magazine.  Page 26.  Just cl...

The K1N DX-pedition is currently on Navassa Island (between Jamaica and Haiti).   This made me think of one of my earliest ham radio memor...

From the November 1964  issue of 73 Magazine, by way of a compendium book sent to me from New York City by Dave W2DAB, comes words of wis...

Some of my earliest ham radio memories are of 73 Magazine. Perhaps this has something to do with the electro-erotica cover shots of the ear...

Mike, VK3XL, has been helping me track down the article that led to my traumatic failed teenage receiver-building project. He found this ver...

Sent in by Mike, kc7 IT, here is an interesting article on how software guys are being encouraged to build things with their hands : http://...