SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

Early morning in the N2CQR shack, May 16, 2023 -- Propagation -- Web sites (RBN, PSK Reporter, others) -- CW -- Homebrew rigs -- VFOs

  OM Basanta VU2NIL  built a very nice antenna tuner using homebrew variable capacitors (above).  After seeing this, I feel unworthy -- I us...

This week I stumbled upon this amazing blog from Australia.  I had to check with Australian friends to find out more about the author.  Owen...

Yesterday my NanoVNA arrived.  This morning I was looking for info on how to use it and I found this really wonderful video from Joe Smith...

HA5KHC is a club station in Budapest, Hungary.  The photo above shows a portion of their worshop.  The link below is for their really ama...

JF1OZL's site was for many years a real treasure trove and source of inspiration for homebrewers around the world.  It recently disa...

It was great fun talking to George and Jeremy of the Ham Radio Workbench Podcast last week.  You can listen to the episode here:  h...

Be sure to check out the blog of Dean KK4DAS.   He is a new homebrewer who is having great success with one of Pete Juliano's ingenio...

The lower portion of the column on the right-hand side of this blog is where I put links to interesting blogs, YouTube channels, and web s...

Even when describing something as simple and basic as snow, Mr. Carlson is electronically awesome.   This video made me realize that in th...

Kostas Giannopoulos  has  a lot of really great homebrew information on his QRP web site .  It is reminiscent of the JF1OZL site. Check it...

Thanks to Karl K5KHK for digging this up.  Excellent.  Three cheers for the WayBack Machine. And thanks again to Walt K3ASW for voicing co...

This is really fantastic.  The screen display is like Google Earth, but all the green dots are local broadcast radio stations.  Put you...

This site provides the kind of info we need when working with toroids.  It even tells you the length of wire to cut. It links to the W8DI...

Check out the new blog from Pete, N6QW.   We hope he continues to post.   Please link to his blog and help spread the word.    Here it is...

Last week I was interviewed by Eric 4Z1UG for his podcast "QSO Today."   I was at first reluctant to do this, simply because...

Stefano IZ3NVR sent me  HA5KHC's very interesting web site .   Lots of ideas here.  For example, check out WA7JHZ's 75 meter ...

It has been a while since I visited the Amateur Logic TV site.  When I looked in last week I found George and Tommy building a spark trans...

We were all understandably concerned when Todd VE7BPO announced this Fall that he was taking down his beloved QRP POPS web site.    I...

Earlier we wrote about QRP POP's reemergence in blog form.  Here's another great blog from Canada, this one from Steve VE7SL: ...