SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

A message to QRP-L from Paul Harden, NA5N about this event almost had me seeking flight reservations. It really sounds great. Wish I coul...

On this one, it takes a while for Shep to get to the radio stuff, but it is worth the wait. Or you could fast forward to around the half...

April 13, 1965. Jean Shepherd discusses Morse Code, propagation, the Signal Corps and a QRP adventure on 20 Meters. You guys will love th...

http://www.soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke112.mp3 July 26, 2009 Jean Shepherd comments on solder smoke Back to Sicily Apollo 11 Hans Summers...

SS 112 has been recorded. I'm out in the Sabine Hills right now but should be able to upload around 2000 UTC tonight.

Wow! Amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley in Australia was the first one to see this new scar on Jupiter. Reminds me of the Shoemaker-Levy 9...

I was 10 years-old and totally involved with the mission. Armstrong was my hero. I kept a scrapbook (still have it). There is an interesting...

I'm away from Rome this Sunday morning. We are back in Sicily. I can't generate a podcast on this Blackberry!I hope to get the next ...

I went back to work on the ET-1R, my relay-based version of the single FET transceiver (check the index on the left under Minimalist Radio f...

L. Paul Verhage has been a leader in the edge-of-space balloon game for a long time now. This morning, Hack-A-Day led me to a site that ha...

Clayton (who is NOT crazy) has put together a really neat solar-powered QRSS rig with the two wires for the dipole antenna sticking out the ...

Deon, K6WH ZS1ACP has been having a great time with Software Defined Radios and stealth vertical antennas in San Diego. His blog site has ...