SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

  Here is short clip of a very cool HB2HB contact on 17 meters.  Thanks Jens!  Check out his QRZ page here:  https://www.qrz.com/db/DL2RMM

   Alan W4AMV in Raleigh NC Dean KK4DAS and I have been working with a local high school.  The students are building a direct conversion rec...

Rick N3FJZ has stepped forward and is building the direct conversion receiver that Dean and I have been working on .  This will be big help ...

  I was searching for Hammarlund HQ-100 wisdom when Google pointed me to the Electric Radio articles of Janis AB2RA.  They were in  ER #380 ...

SolderSmoke Podcast #227 is available:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke227.mp3 Travelogue Mars is moving away.  Jupiter and Saturn clos...

  Oh man, this doesn't happen every day.  Using my homebrew BITX 40 DIGI-TIA,  I had just finished a great QSO on 40 meters with Greg W8...

Wow, it has been a while since I first talked to Rick, N3FJZ.  Above you can see his QSL card.  And here is a link to a SolderSmoke blo...

This was really amazing.  I had been feeling guilty about not getting on the air much during quarantine.  I mean, we have these airwaves a...

The last blog postings on Rick N3FJZ were in 2015 .  Rick sent me a very uplifting reception report, then we had a pretty amazing Homebrew...

That's the front panel.  Glenn's kids and grand kids liked sitting on his lap while he played radio and putting stickers on it ...

Oh man, last night the Radio Gods were on my side.  I only had about a half hour on 40 SSB, but I had some really nice QSOs.   WB2HJK Geo...

I had some good luck on the ham bands last weekend.  First, I was called by Bruce KC1FSZ -- this time he was on his Al Fresco scratch-bu...

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...

I had a a good session with the BITX gang on 7277 kHz starting at  7pm local last night.  Keith N6ORS was on with his  MIN-X rig (picture...

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 so much great homebrewing going on down-under.   It makes me jealous.  And so much of it is for phone.  FB. I really like V...

AC7M HB Amp and HB Power Supply I was flying solo last night.  Everyone else in the house was out.  So I turned to ham radio for some...

Wow!  Now THAT is a shack! This morning I heard Butch K0BS and his friends on 40 meter SSB.  I knew I was listening to the voices of kind...