SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

If Italy is in daylight, you should be able to see my 50 milliwatt FSK signal on one of the European on-line grabbers. IK0VVE has a nice gr...

Scott Haley in Tulsa alerted me to this very interesting article in Wired magazine. How do you say Knack in Italian? Check it out: Wired...

Graham, G3ZOD, was looking at the 80 meter band using the on-line SDR receiver in the Netherlands ( http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl ) This is...

Here is a really interesting little rig from Joan, Ea3FXF, and Eduardo, EA3GHS. They have a very nice web site with more info, including S...

Yesterday I got a very interesting message from Rye, K9LCJ. The map of Tasmania comes from the Modulated Light DX portion of the KA7AOI si...

Bob, Kd4EBM, sent me some really good info on laser safety. Bottom line: For the time being anyway, Billy will be limited to the http://ww...

Oops, forgot to put this on the blog on Sunday: http://www.soldersmoke.com SolderSmoke #93 October 12 , 2008 HB Pi Network Tuna (with myster...

Here is my 30 meter QRSS frequency standard using paper for insulation.

The online grabber of Johan, ON5EX, provided instant gratification this morning. Right after I finished some modifications that I hoped wou...

Last Sunday's "Flea at Trastevere" (I'm the only one who calls it that) was a huge success for me. Minutes after arriving...

They say the videos were taken down because of some Intellectual Property issue. That's their story, but I've seen the X-Files, ...

Many of us really enjoyed those videos about the two Italian brothers from Turin and their homebrew space monitoring program. But there is...