SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

After working on it for a while I got so fond of my old Hammarlund HQ-100 that I moved it from the AM/Boatanchors operating position over to...

  Last month we were talking about this company.  Someone thought it was run by Lew McCoy of ARRL Homebrew fame, but it now appears that ou...

  Oh man, I share this with much trepidation because the last time I posted something about the work of Mike KG7TR ,  Pete N6QW said he fel...

I built this receiver back in 1998, but I continue to have fun tinkering with it. I wrote an article about it for "Electric Radio"...

Scott WA9WFA and I have been exchanging e-mails about his Mate for the Mighty Midget receiver project.  This morning I finally took a look a...

Wow, Scott got his Mate for the Mighty Midget receiver to work and he is obviously overjoyed with the result.  All of us who have struggled ...

Here is another important bit of SSB history.  In  May 1960, Joe Galeski W4IMP published an article in QST describing his super-simple SSB t...

Hi Bill,     Finally the Mate for the Mighty Midget is finished, just in time for the G-QRP Valve Day 12-13 th of November. Got ...

Dennis Klipa N8ERF has been doing great work exploring the technical intricacies of the humble SWR meter (and believe me, there are intric...

Note the establishment of a new acronym (M4MMRX) for Lew McCoy's Mate for the Mighty Midget receiver.  We  have needed this acronym fo...

Obviously the Radio Gods (Spirits in the Sky) approve of Jan's work.  How could they not?  I can now see why he took the trouble to...

Jan sent me an amazing update on his Mate for the Mighty Midget Mk 2 receiver project.  I'm really blown away by the skill that he bri...

OK, here is yet another picture of my Mighty Midget's Mate receiver, this time with yet another main tuning dial. I gave up on the la...

This morning I put a reduction drive onto the main tuning cap of my 6U8 Mate for the Mighty Midget receiver.  Before I had been directly ...

Very nice Bert.  Sounds great.  I like the pill bottle coil core.  Lew McCoy used them in his designs. I do think that air core coils do p...

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The story of my 80/40 meter three tube (all 6U8) superhet receiver is recounted here:  http://www.gadgeteer.us/erart.htm I've been ...

Al, W1UX, asked for a picture of the receiver that I used to listen to his dulcet tones this morning.   Here you go Al.    Here is an art...

The key chain device will soon be carried to 1200 feet by our new rocket. Our book: "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wirel...

I had our friend Grayson (in Turkey) in mind when I put Eddy's messages about this "thermitron" receiver on the blog.   Her...