Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Friday, July 24, 2026

A Homebrew X-Ray Machine from North Macedonia

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It has been a long time since we saw anything like the X-ray machine described in CL Stong's classic book "The Amateur Scientist....
Friday, May 29, 2026

A Quick Review of "Open Circuits" by Eric Schlaepfer and Windell H. Oskay

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Wednesday's post about this book caused me to pull it off my shelf and to take another look. Highlights from the SolderSmoke perspectiv...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Eric KK6GZM of CuriousMarc is the Author of Open Circuits

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I've been watching the CuriousMarc YouTube channel for a while now.  I am sure that many of you also watch.  We know that Marc is a ham ...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Tracy Kidder, author of Soul of the New Machine, dies at age 80

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  He was a great writer.  His books are inspirational.  Thank you Tracy Kidder.  Obit:    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/books/tracy-kid...
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Thursday, December 4, 2025

Jim Williams -- Analog Man -- Book Review: "Analog Circuit Design -- Art, Science, and Personalities"

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  Jim Williams at his bench.  Note the mess.  The Bob Pease book that KD4EBM gave me led me to the Jim Willams book entitled Analog Circuit...
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Saturday, November 1, 2025

Another GREAT Book -- L.B. Cebik, W4RNL's "Seven Steps to Designing your Own Ham Equipment" - 1979 - FREE!

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Thanks to Walter KA4KXX for alerting us to this gem of a book.  L.B. Cebik is best known as an antenna guru.  I did not know that he also di...
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Thursday, October 30, 2025

"Troubleshooting Analog Circuits" by Bob Pease

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  I used to say that at a hamfest, you should get three things:  1) some parts 2) a tool, and 3)  a book.   I thought I had maxed out on boo...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Radio Shack, Mixers, Terman

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T his morning while looking to an old book that is still a favorite, I found a footnote to an even older book that is also one of my favorit...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Grayson Evans KJ7UM Interview at Four Days in May at the Dayton Hamvention 2025

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  LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW HERE:  http://soldersmoke.com/KJ7UM at Dayton 2025.mp3 Grayson said quite a lot in this short 4 minute interview: ...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

On the importance of taking a break.

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Thomas K4SWL has a good post about the importance of taking a break from radio.  Following up on this, I noted that "taking a break...
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Monday, September 16, 2024

"QRP Classics" The Book that Got Me Started in Homebrew

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https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2022/09/fixing-up-old-homebrew-rig-barebones.html A question this morning from Scott KQ4AOP caused me to Go...
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Monday, February 5, 2024

"The Soul of a New Machine" -- Re-reading the Classic Book by Tracy Kidder

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This book is especially important to the SolderSmoke community because its title has led to one of the most important concepts in our commun...
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Saturday, January 20, 2024

K0IYE's Thoughts on Homebrewing and Workshops

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Click on the image for a clearer look I like Frank Harris K0IYE's book so much that I don't mind posting about it frequently.   ...
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Sunday, December 17, 2023

Make Your Own SDR Software! And, "Analog Man" by Joe Walsh of the Eagles (WB6ACU)

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The above video appeared on Hack-A-Day this morning.  ON THE SAME MORNING, Bruce KK0S happened to send me this version of Joe Walsh WB6ACU...
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Friday, November 24, 2023

A FREE Book from the Early Days of Ham Projects with Transistors: The CK722 -- The Device that Got Pete Juliano Started in Homebrew

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  Pete N6QW sent this amazing book to me this morning.  Pete wrote:  "The book was the size of a Notebook and had a gray cover.  I buil...
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Friday, November 10, 2023

SolderSmoke Podcast #249 -- Travel, Pete's 6BA6 rig, Books!, VFOs, SDR, Computers, Spectrum Analysers, Transistor Man! MAILBAG

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New VFO for 15-10 Transceiver Schematic below SolderSmoke Podcast #249 is available:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke249.mp3 There is als...
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Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Basil Mahon is an Author for Us -- He explains Faraday, Maxwell, and Heaviside

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  Armand WA1UQO has sent me two of Basil Mahon's books.  They are both really great.  He is a wonderful writer who has the rare ability ...
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Saturday, October 14, 2023

Paul VK3HN's Video on Scratch-Building and SOTA

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It was great to get a comment from Paul VK3HN -- this led to a re-establishment of contact.  Apparently Google knows who I have been e-maili...
Saturday, September 23, 2023

Sunburst and Luminary -- An Apollo Memoir by Don Eyles (video)

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Buy the book from the Amazon link on the right side of the page >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>...
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Saturday, September 16, 2023

"The Art of Electronics" by Horowitz and Hill (First in a Series of Blog Posts on this Great Book)

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Paul Horowitz Oh man, this book is so good.  You really just need to buy it now.  I put it in the Amazon link to the right. OVER HERE >...
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