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Hack-A-Day has an article today about using a laser for data transmission.   This reminded me of a discussion I had with Mike KL7R about sim...

Andreas DL1AJG in Germany sent the above video to me.  Andreas is the fellow who ran the course in which his university-level students built...

  Mike KL7R (SK) during a visit to the AL7FS shack. This was Mike Caughran KL7R's last podcast. He died in a car accident shortly after...

  Bill, Why do you guys make your Soldersmoke podcasts so darn intriguing such that I can’t listen to them in the background while I’m doing...

Thanks to Karl K5KHK for digging this up.  Excellent.  Three cheers for the WayBack Machine. And thanks again to Walt K3ASW for voicing co...

SolderSmoke Podcast #179 is available: 22 August 2015 http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke179.mp3 YESTERDAY MARKED 10 YEARS...

  SolderSmoke Podcast #177 is available:   http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke177.mp3   13 June 2015   -- PETE JULIANO INDUC...

The links recently went bad, but fortunately Jim W8NSA saved the old site (most of it).  Thanks Jim. http://www.commcenter-8.net/kl...

I got a nice message yesterday from Brad Smith, WA5PSA.  Brad told me that he had listened to both of the Pete Juliano podcasts...TWICE. ...

Mike, KL7R, was a fan of McGyver.  Mike would have liked this: http://blog.makezine.com/2013/04/22/5-4-3-2-1-things-about-lee-zlotoff/ ...

  I'm kind of behind on podcast production, but once again I have a good excuse:  I've been melting solder.   I decided to finall...

The HW-8 rehab project of Ed, WA3WSJ, has led to a nice discussion on QRP-L about the possibility of using the HW-8 as a DSB rig. Mike, KL7...