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The fellow who helps me introduce SolderSmoke mailbag ("That's awesome!") has launched a blog. Billy would really get a kick ...

I've made some disparaging comments recently about the MAKE blog. I noted that they seemed to be drifting away from soldering irons and ...

Here's an updated schematic for the amplifier chain I've been working on. Here's the latest version of the Spice file: Bill...

SolderSmoke #95 Get the podcast here November 23, 2008 Amp design adventures with Spice, EMRFD WANTED: NE602 Spice model Pictures (from pir...

Here is John Price VK3AJG's very FB homebrew 80 meter SSB transceiver when it was in the "boards on the table" phase of constr...

Here at SolderSmoke, we often get letters from the relatives of Knack victims. This week we received a particularly impassioned plea for he...

Here's the LTSpice schematic for an amplifier chain that I've been building. (It might be hard to see, but maybe you can download i...

http://www.soldersmoke.com SolderSmoke #94 November 2, 2008 Halloween in Rome, Autumn rains Building Class A Amps with Spice, Copper, SS...

I hate to tell you, but all you guys who are using STORE-BOUGHT solar panels are a bunch of APPLIANCE OPERATORS. Time to roll your own, a...

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...