SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

  Click on the image for a clearer view This is really cool and very easy.  Easy nerd thrills.   On Friday, Steve VE7SL, put up a blog post...

  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...

 -- This is really interesting technology.  Three cheers for Joe Taylor and colleagues.  This mode would obviously be very useful for fast, ...

  Idle hands are the devil's workshop my friends.  I was home alone this week, and kind of ran out of things to do.  I started thinking ...

  Rob Sherwood NC0B is one of the real authorities on receiver performance.  Many of us have relied on his ratings of commercial receivers f...

This is a really excellent video showing how JPL engineers and technicians designed, built and tested the first video camera system sent to ...

Java on the S-38E Tuning Dial SolderSmoke Podcast #220 is available http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke220.mp3 Hunkered Down.  St...

Really great to see this session with Nobel Prize winner Joe Taylor, K1JT. I liked his comments on his use of his retirement office at Pr...

On 18 Feb 2019 I talked to Kim KD9XB on 40 meter SSB.  Kim -- who is retired from the Voice of America -- told me about a really interesti...

The crew on the space station have been transmitting SSTV images.   This morning I threw together a receiving system:  I used my four e...

Congratulations Steve!  https://n8nmsteve.blogspot.com/2019/02/homebrew-was.html

Check it out!  Note the Juli-yellow front panel color.   Featuring FT-8 and WSPR capability.  Go Pete!  http://n6qw.blogspot.com/2018/0...

I've had several very nice conversations with Gerry AE7KI (aka VK2APG).  His Australian accent sets him apart from the other Tennesse...

From the earliest BITX articles, Farhan has encouraged the use of discarded  cookie or candy boxes.  Jim's popcorn box is clearly in...

A New Direction for SolderSmoke Introducing Our New Podcast:  “WireWrapRap” Attentive listeners have probably noticed that f...

Here is a very interesting comparison between digital audio, and plain old SSB audio (from a Collins rig!). I don't know.  I may be ...

Bob LeDoux sent us a link to a really amazing site about the Hellschreiber system.  The site is filled with great videos, pictures, and a...

Hi Bill,   I am a long time listener of SolderSmoke and a big fan! Since your last podcast was on the use of Arduino’s for ham radio...

To QRP-L:  I have a JUMA TRX-1 cw and dsb transceiver. It seems to me that if I transmit an psk signal there would be two signals gen...

It's ugly but it gets you there.  I finally got the little 30 meter DSB/Direct Conversion transceiver that I built in Rome working ...