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Thanks to Ed KC8SBV for sending me this awesome video.  It looks like Mattia built this receiver way back in 1995.  The tuning indicator is ...

Jack Welch AI4SV has been an important member of the SolderSmoke community for many years .  I remember fondly our Straight Key Night CW con...

  15 March 2009  Beware the Ides of March! Ostia Beach and Ostia Antica 248 Knights of QRSS. And Wizards! ET Phones Home (with QRSS?) Pos...

February 22, 2008     -- We were in Rome.   -- I read a 1931 QST ad sent to me by my fellow "Hambassador" David Cowhig, WA1LBP; Da...

For obvious reasons Marconi stories pop up in my news feeds.  This morning an article  from Wales reminded me of a very dark and dishearten...

As I finished up the receiver on my 17-12 SSB transceiver, I started to wonder -- how good is it?   Sure, I could hear stations on both band...

https://www.inverse.com/science/james-webb-photo-final A very nice shot of the James Webb Space Telescope, nearly 1 million miles away, take...

In a recent podcast, Pete mentioned that Leo Sampson (the young Brit who is rebuilding the sailing  yacht "Tally Ho" ) should seal...

Putting "Basta" in the SolderSmoke search box yields many blog posts.  The cry of ENOUGH! from six year-old Mafalda has been part ...

This ad was recently shown on the K9YA Telegraph .  I was wondering about its origins.  I asked noted thermatron guru Grayson Evans -- he...

Dear Bill and Pete, Sincere apologies for my chronic lack of correspondence but life has proven exceedingly eventful of late. As...

We had this video on the blog before, but it was seven years ago, so it it time for a re-run.   http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/5108...

I understand the launch of Farhan's CubeSat has been delayed a few days.  That's the way it works in the rocket launch biz --patie...

Thanks to W8SX for alerting me to this.  There is a lot of good stuff on Roberto's site .  He obviously has THE KNACK.  http://rad...

Bore and Heriberto's uBITX board Nowhere is the International Brotherhood of Electronic Wizards more evident than in the work on the...

Dear Bill I write this to you from my shack in Wimbledon, south west London, with the crackle of the bands slowly waking up across Eur...

In spite of being a bit off frequency, sTef,  DL1FDF (aka VY1QRP) has been inducted into the Color Burst Liberation Army.  Congratulat...

Our book: "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" http://soldersmoke.com/book.htm Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts,...

Stefano IZ3NVR sent me  HA5KHC's very interesting web site .   Lots of ideas here.  For example, check out WA7JHZ's 75 meter ...

It is practically SPARKLING!   Beautiful job Pete.  I'm glad you are actually boxing this one up!  Pete has many more pictures of t...