SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

It is time to put aside (again!) all of the heated ideological arguments about the power level that defines "low power."  Just sit...

Here's an index:  http://www.k7qo.net/qrpp_toc_de_k7qo.pdf And here are lot of the back issues: http://www.ncqrpp.org/ And I ...

We are honored to induct Alan Wolke W2AEW into the Colorburst Liberation Army.  And for his valiant effort to build and explain a MMM Low-...

  With lots of encouragement from Pete, I finally got the BITX DIGI-TIA on the air.  The first contacts were made yesterday. I have it ...

  Lots of progress over the long weekend.  Along the back you can see the three stages of the RF amplifier chain:  2N3904, 2N2218A, IR...

Termination Insensitivity.  It sounds like some sort of psychological problem, but it is not! Our book: "SolderSmoke -- Global Adv...

I'm starting to worry about a visit from Homeland Security.   I found this on the blog of W6IEE . He blames K6FWT.  The CBLA has ...

New recruits have been signing up for the Color Burst Liberation Army.   We have been sending out many more 3.579 MHz crystals. Pete Juli...

A thing of beauty!   Check out the key!   What a great diagram.  Schematic included!  http://www.sm7ucz.se/MMM/MMM.htm ...

Hi Bill, Your recent stories about your TT-2 and original TT-2 "mojo transfer" prompted me to resurrect my TT-2 'resto...

And now for something (almost) completely different.  Rarely have wire cutters been described in such, well, almost erotic terms.  This de...

Wow, Vanguard even looks like a QRPp satellite.  I suspected that something was up:  I noticed that Mike Rainey, AA1TJ has recently be...

Peter Parker's amazing 8 transistor DSB rig (featured in an equally amazing YouTube video -- see earlier blog post) has sparked a ...