SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

The Aviation Week article below helped to confirm some of my worst fears about the balloon thing.  For a long I've wanted to launch one ...

  Thanks to Bob Crane W8SX for getting us this wonderful interview with Hans G0UPL.  Its really amazing to hear Hans talk about how many QDX...

Here is a very interesting video about a problem that many of us have been blissfully unaware.  You can see the role played by the solar cyc...

  Too often ham radio bloggers and podcasters tend to focus their efforts on the projects of, well, older guys like us.  I think it is a g...

Bob Crane, our intrepid correspondent at the 2017 Four Day in May event, caught up with Homebrew Hero Hans Summers G0UPL.  Hans's amaz...

I found myself almost cheering out loud as I listened to this wonderful interview , especially at the point where Hans lets it be known th...

    Hans Summers April 15 at 11:25am   VE3KCL/QRP Labs S-9 balloon finally reached Europe! What a crazy way to cross the Atlantic...

Oh, I really want to do this.  We had a bunch of balloons for my daughter's birthday and I found myself trying to guestimate how much ...

  A video about the Kon-Tiki expedition got us wondering about how you could generate hydrogen gas for an antenna balloon while on a ra...

Back in July we shared a very nice video sent to us by Rupert G6HVY on the radios used by the Kon-Tiki expedition.  Many of us had que...

Hi Bill Just found a short Youtube QRP video which is quite fun. It's of the radio side of  Thor Heyerdahl's cross-Pacific Kon-T...

http://www.qrp-labs.com/ultimate3/balloon.html Farhan alerted me to this.  This is clearly the coolest use so far of the Dynamic Duo...

We've put cameras in kites and rockets, but I think this is much cooler. More details (and pictures) here: http://hackerloop.com/up...

I like balloon projects. Our book: "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" http://soldersmoke.com/book.htm Our...

Wow, congratulations to the California Near Space team. Their balloon flew from Silicon Valley, across the U.S., across the Atlantic and i...

My in-box seemed to have an outer space theme today. First, from Guanajuato, Mexico comes word that the radio club there is planning a sec...

I don't think they are radio amateurs, but these guys seem to have The Knack. That's an edge-of-space balloon payload they built. ...

Our man in Dubai, Ron Sparks, AG5RS, sent in this very interesting report on the very small satellites. Obviously lots of QRP relevance he...

L. Paul Verhage has been a leader in the edge-of-space balloon game for a long time now. This morning, Hack-A-Day led me to a site that ha...

Wow, that's an exciting track. The intrepid radio amateurs at Cornell University have a balloon up over the mid-Atlantic. It is approa...