SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

On May 16, 2023 Farhan gave us a look at his new BITX23 2 Meter Transceiver. Two days later he made a presentation on this rig at the Four ...

I was recently noting that the assembly of IC, CPU-based projects doesn't seem like real homebrew radio.  I realize that there is a dan...

Ten years ago, my friend John gave me this tiny Sony receiver.  It wasn't working.   I tried to fix it but quickly discovered that the t...

Wow, lots of wisdom in this video from Leo Fernekes.  Great hints and kinks on prototyping with copper clad boards. I need a Dremel just s...

More great stuff from Peter DK7IH.   He recently made  some improvements to his "Shirt-Pocket SSB Transceiver.   On his blog he ex...

A while back, Tony Parks very kindly sent me one of his wonderful Softrock RXTX V6.3 Software Defined Radio kits. I took a shot at it, but ...

From London I used to talk to Phil, VK6ADF, on Echolink. We have a lot of interests in common. This may be due to the fact that we were b...

For some reason I like the packaging for this Italian soldering flux. Sort of takes you back to the days when soldering was soldering, if yo...

Hi Bill Africa "field QRP station" Thanks for another great episode of your experiences - I'm tuning in from Africa while on ...

OK SolderSmoke fans, here's a video for YOU! Steve "Melt Solder" Weber has put out his first video. It is about surface mou...