SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

Bill: Having been an occasional Solder-Smoke listener, I recently purchased your book "Solder Smoke Adventures" to read during vac...

We are really privileged to have among us ( and in the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Hall of Fame) Phil Erickson W1PJE.   Phil is the Direc...

Wow, I had been feeling a bit discourged about the slow-down in receiver completions, then I woke  up this morning and found this e-mail fro...

Scott KQ4AOP's build of this receiver is especially noteworthy, becasue he used the receiver to hear the very first ham radio signals he...

Frank's Lowfer Beacon Receiver It was great to hear from someone else who, like Scott KQ4AOP, heard his very first signals on a homebrew...

  https://www.qsotoday.com/podcasts/vu2jxn I think we got our first e-mail from Ramakrishnan way back in 2006.  At the time he was VU3RDD. O...

  Unlike Pete (see below), I don't have any cool pictures of me in front of an early station.   But in the picture above,  there I am, a...

My Radio My Life | Trailer | 4K from Makarand Waikar on Vimeo . Wow!  VU2DTR is presenting a film about radio made by her mom VU2RBI.  Th...

 TRGHS (The Radio Gods Have Spoken)

Here we have a really cool video from Mr. Carlson.  In it he reveals (admits!) to what we already know:  HE IS A HAM RADIO OPERATOR.  FB Mr....

  First, the Knack Story.  Andy CO2AFV clearly has The Dilbert Disease:  Hello my name is Andy. I had an interest in Ham radio before knowin...

-- As a kid, Eyles took a summertime shop class with W4LRO.  Eyles himself went on to get his ham license -- he was K4ZHF and was active for...

Radio Contact · “We didn’t find anything, so the search goes on” Above is a seven minute audio podcast in which Paul Horowitz talks about h...

Don't be deterred by the annoying test patterns at the start of this video.  Just skip past them.  The rest of the video is quite good. ...

  "It is not the critic who counts; not the ham who points out how the homebrewer stumbles, or where the builder of rigs could have bui...

The Radio Gods seem to be steering us toward Double Sideband.  A few days ago I got an e-mail from Alain F4IET.   We had him on the SolderSm...

  https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/hobby-high/article65375392.ece?fbclid=IwAR01JGwweZuJEH1Pg15rREybZqfqKUjU3ZLbGn-xhOYZVlFPs7yN_Fb...

Lex PH2LB in the Netherlands has gone the extra kilometer for the IBEW.  When he saw the stickers that had been placed in New York City, he ...

  Rich WB4TLM spotted my bog posts about famed QRPer C.F. Rockey  W9SCH.  He followed up by sending me a link to the WB4TLM blog.   It is a ...

Even though it is outside my normal analog comfort zone, I really liked this video.  Farhan sent it to me, along with this note:  ----------...