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I'm up here with Billy on a violin gig. Beautiful place! Will descrbe on next podcast. 73

Jupiter and Io montage captured by the New horizons spacecraft. The Jupiter image is false-color near IR data obtained with the LEISA instru...

http://www.soldersmoke.com I n SolderSmoke 108: May 24, 2009 Hubble Space Telescope Repair Mission WSPR: W3PM sees my sigs, back to vi...

Mark "MOJ" Johnson, W8MOJ, sent me a really amazing 73 Magazine article. It is from the APRIL 1983 issue. (The month of publica...

Bill: You say you buy your crystals from the electronics store? Real homebrewers grind their own crystals. See attachments. Russ Afte...

Graham, G3ZOD, sent me this WSPR screen-shot. He writes: Hi Bill. Thought you might be interested in a screen grab of yourself. You're...

I didn't mean to leave you guys in suspense. Here is the exciting conclusion. EXCELSIOR!

I was drifting off into Linux-land, but an e-mail from OM Gene, K8EE, brought me back. I'd thought that we had already unearthed all of ...

As SolderSmoke listeners know, I'm not really a software guy. In fact, I'm only a marginally competent user of software. But I...

Perhaps he picked up the vibrations from Dayton and FDIM where they were conducting a Sudden Receiver build-a-thon... Jeff, KO7M, (aka the ...

I got a nice e-mail from Gene, W3PM. Gene's simple homebrew SSB rig for WSPR provided the inspiration that got me into the WSPR mode. ...

Check out the little black marks in the lower left of old Sol. That's Shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope (you can see it...