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Here are two great videos from Mike AG5VG showing his two homebrew receivers in action.  (The transmitter portions of Farhan's circuit w...

  That's William, now ZL4L, and his homebrew 40 meter SSB transceiver.  He has given the rig a wonderful name from Greek mythology:  The...

February 22, 2008     -- We were in Rome.   -- I read a 1931 QST ad sent to me by my fellow "Hambassador" David Cowhig, WA1LBP; Da...

Over on the SoulderSmoke YouTube channel I have been putting up some podcasts from days-gone-by.  Recently they have been from our last day...

This is the first in a series of four podcast that include Echolink conversations with Andy ZS6ADY about old tube radios (boatanchors) in So...

Alan Wolke W2AEW and I were recently discussing our Drake 2-Bs (again!). Both of our receivers have reduction drives between the main t...

I liked this video.   I liked Hans' description of his mechanical skills, and the way he has at times become a "human CNC machine...

SolderSmoke 193   28 Jan 2017 http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke193.mp3 Report from Pete on BITX 40 Session with California ra...

Hi Bill,   I am Pieter callsign ZS3AOR. I came upon your E-Book at Amazon and downloaded it to my Kindle and man, I really enjoy...

Rupert with some sort of SDR rig   In addition to having a very cool name, Rupert Goodwins, G6HVY,  is a for-real tech guru: htt...

I got tired of popping the hood and manually changing my VXO crystals.  First I tried to switch the rocks using a rotary switch on the fr...

All of this is very interesting, but SolderSmoke readers will probably find the last ten minutes most interesting.   http://www.youtube....

Gerard ZS5AAC This morning the BITX20 mailing list has an interesting discussion of toroidal cores. I especially like Gerard's use of t...