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You have to look carefully, but in the picture above you can see a little green line stretching from Rome to Maine. That's my 20 milliw...

Another great video from Steve and the goats.

http://www.soldersmoke.com In SolderSmoke 106: Sicily, Mt. Etna, The Godfather DSB success on WSPR Am I the lowest power WSPR station in the...

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As described in SolderSmoke 106. My beacon box is the vertical aluminum box. The junk box AF Amp lies on the shelf. Like they used to ...

Amazing! That's the whole rig, keyer chip included! And those red wires you see coming off the end -- that's the loop antenna. ...

Got up this morning, walked into the shack and saw on my computer screen a thin green line from Rome to the Canary Islands. I knew that...

I got into WSPR because I wanted to one day walk into my shack and be greeted by a Google map with big long lines showing my milliwatt sign...

WSPR is fun. I haven't crossed any ponds yet, but the real- time displays of the reception reports are very addictive: http://wsprnet.o...

Joop, PE1CQP, and I have been discussing mixer circuits, especially the ever-popular diode ring. Here is my latest e-mail to Joop. The RSGB...

Wow, that's an exciting track. The intrepid radio amateurs at Cornell University have a balloon up over the mid-Atlantic. It is approa...

Oh, how sweet it is. Today I finally got my WSPR station working. Before departing for Sicily, I installed a diode ring mixer (supplied by...