SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

Rogier PA1ZZ sent me this today.  I think I may have seen pieces of it before, but this restoration  is really nice.  But ham radio seems to...

Mike WU2D put out this nice video (above) about whether or not he should part out his Heath SG-6 signal generator, using the parts in a Para...

  Unlike Pete (see below), I don't have any cool pictures of me in front of an early station.   But in the picture above,  there I am, a...

  Wow.  That is the method that they stored computer memory for the moon missions.  When they were satisfied with a program they would say i...

https://youtu.be/J1QlKykhR2M?t=583 I have it cued up to 9:43 -- at that point Ramon is in his ham shack.   Lots of good stuff in there!  Ple...

First a big congratulations to the Vienna Wireless Society and its President, Dean KK4DAS.  In spite of low temperatures that made the Winte...

Sometimes we get a comment that is so good that we elevate it to the main blog page.  That was the case with Lex PH2LB's comment on the ...

Tony G4WIF suggested that I make this talk available as an audio recording.  Good idea. Here it is:  http://soldersmoke.com/N2CQRHomebrewing...

I reported to Scott and Grayson that I had finally gotten around to changing the three aging 6U8 tubes in my Mate for the Mighty Midget rece...

This was a very nice meeting.  We just talked homebrewing and why it is such an important part of  ham radio.  Video above Topics included: ...

Farhan VU2ESE is largely responsible for this.  He has recently been talking about VHF.  (More about this in due course.).  This started me ...

SolderSmoke Podcast #233 is available.  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke233.mp3 Travelogue: Cape Cod. SST. Marconi Site. The WFSRA:  ...

  I was very pleased to read that Chuck Penson WA7ZZE was publishing a book about Heathkit's amateur radio products.  His book is a real...

  There it is.  The 2021 re-creation of the WN2QHL Novice Amateur Radio Station.  This is what I had when I first went on the air in April 1...

And this was apparently AFTER they relocated and organized things a bit.  I have my eye on those QF-1s.  Someone stop me before it's too...

                                             WA7ZZE Shack The video above popped up in my Facebook feed today and reminded me of Chuck Penso...

  I mentioned this in the last podcast.   I'm looking for one of these. I had one as a kid, and used it with a DX-40 and a Lafayette HA-...

Hack-A-Day had a nice post about this piece of gear:  https://hackaday.com/2021/01/18/q-multiplier-er-multiplies-q/ My radio emotions were s...

Diode product detector on the left, BFO amp in the right As noted in an earlier blog post, I didn't like the sound of SSB and CW when ...

Mike WU2D made another very nice video about his Drake TR-3 refurb.  He cracked me up when he noticed that one of the calibration oscill...