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Armand writes: The video above shows a quick pass up 40M. The radio sounds better than the video would have you believe (better than I expe...

Click on image for a better view Lee McKusick was correct about many things, but of course we were a bit disappointed by his focus on store ...

  Grayson Evans KJ7UM (the author of  Hollow State Design ) was recently in Germany where he spotted this museum display of a homebrew recei...

Here's another great video from Helge LA6NCA.  This is a follow-up to his Altoids Spy Transmitter project.   Really well done.   Hack-A-...

  Will's homebrew station is really something.  The rig (it truly qualifies for this term of praise) is amazing all by itself  (see belo...

  Thanks to Peter Marks VK3TPM ("a bloke with too many hobbies") for alerting us to this magnificent homebrew receiver with the es...

Farhan VU2ESE is largely responsible for this.  He has recently been talking about VHF.  (More about this in due course.).  This started me ...

Just stunning, in their simplicity and beauty.  Really amazing work.  Kind of reminiscent of my ET-2, but with tubes, and much nicer constru...

Thanks to Stephen Walters for posting the link to this video on the SolderSmoke Facebook page.  I really liked the way this project was desc...

Hack-A-Day had a nice post about this piece of gear:  https://hackaday.com/2021/01/18/q-multiplier-er-multiplies-q/ My radio emotions were s...

Oh man, how could I have possibly missed this one?  Perhaps I didn't, but even if this one has been on the blog before, it is so good th...

Wow, a regen receiver using homebrew triodes.  Makes me feel like such a pathetic appliance operator, what with all my STORE-BOUGHT TUBES......

Hi Bill, I was really impressed with Chuck KE5HPY’s 12AU7 Quarantine Regen!  A very nice build and my hat is off to him!  It caught...

B ill and Pete: Thanks for upping the frequency of your podcasts.  Each one is a welcome note to break-up the COVID monotony. F...

Jerry KI4IO is a really talented homebrewer;  I've called him the Wizard of Warrenton:   https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2015/07...

Lots of homebrew wisdom on OM Rick's web site .  Excerpts:  ---------------- Why am I not on the air as much as I'm tinke...

The lower portion of the column on the right-hand side of this blog is where I put links to interesting blogs, YouTube channels, and web s...

Bill's uBITX with HB keys and the mic that used to be the podcast mic!  SolderSmoke Podcast #216 is available  21 December 2019 ...

My ET-2 minimalist QRP CW adventure is (for now) officially over.   I have taken the rig - festooned with the callsigns of all the stati...

Latest N2CQR version of N0WVA's Regen SolderSmoke Podcast #215 is available.  25 November 2019 http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmok...