SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

  Sunburst and Luminary by Don Eyles has a lot of the kind of color that helps the reader understand what was going on technologically duri...

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

  http://www.alphalpha.org/radar/poem/story.html Thanks to Allan WA9IRS for sharing this with us. 

The Little Black Box of jewels and rocks with lanterns that flicker and glow, make lighter the gloom in my little back-room where often I ha...

From a post on on "ZL Amateur Radio & Friends,"  in response to a complaint about the lack of activity (with apologies to Paul...

Jerry KI4IO is a really talented homebrewer;  I've called him the Wizard of Warrenton:   https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2015/07...

Dylan Thoams   "Rage, rage against the dying of the light"  I thought of that line from Dylan Thomas's poem when I read...

Not quite as authoritative as a spoken message from the The Radio Gods themselves (as in TRGHS), but the HF Oracle seems to be well connec...

I was alone and all was dark  Beneath me and above  My life was full of volts and amps  But not the spark of love  But now that you are...

I'm a big fan of Ade Weiss, and I often find myself reaching to his "History of QRP" for technical or techno-literary inspirat...

Art, KG6ZWD, sent this along. General MacArthur kept this poem displayed above his desk in Manila, and frequently quoted from it during his...