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This is just so good, I felt the urge to share it immediately with the SolderSmoke community. Thanks Tom, and Happy New Year to all! Bill: ...

PA3GUO put together this nice video. Check out the large footprint of this relatively high-orbit satellite. Mark, K6HX, has a nice recordin...

We were out in the Sabine hills this week. Things are starting to settle down out there: The Cinghale are, well, mostly GONE (see earlier p...

For some reason I like the packaging for this Italian soldering flux. Sort of takes you back to the days when soldering was soldering, if yo...

My "Mate for the Mighty Midget" receiver (with 6U8s) Some excellent Christmas verse from Brad, AA1IP: The Glowbugs' Christmas...

I always liked the last, very inclusive line in Colonel Borman's 1968 Christmas Eve message. "Wired" magazine also made note ...

Now here is a charity that Knack victims might see as a good cause -- I'm Dan Werthimer, the Chief Scientist of the SETI@home project. ...

Hi Bill Africa "field QRP station" Thanks for another great episode of your experiences - I'm tuning in from Africa while on ...

Help me, help me! I want to get WSPR running on Billy's Asus eeePC. I have Ubuntu Easy Peasy running off a thumb drive. And I have...

This makes me want to pull out the UHF gear! http://www.camsat.cn/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=67

We were out the Sabine Hills this weekend and on Sunday afternoon I go on 20 CW with my trusty HW8. I made just one contact, but it was a G...

Yesterday, in my search for pictures of the Drake 2B, I came across VE3MPG's excellent interview with Dale Parfitt, W4OP. Dale and I ...