SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

From LA3JJ's WSPR blog: The development of our hobby is amazing, some new things will catch on very fast. I was thrown into this WSPR t...

That's OM Dick Dillman at the controls of maritime radio station KPH in Bolinas, California. Bob, W8SX, sent me an mp3 recording of a sh...

7 spots: Timestamp Call MHz SNR Drift Grid Pwr Reporter RGrid km az  2010-02-06 16:04   DK9MS   10.140210   -11   -1   JO40tm   2   I0/N2...

The video (from a phone patch the day after the quake) gives you a real sense of how bad it is. It was good to see that hams from the Domin...

 http://www.soldersmoke.com 5 February 2010 Into the Apennine snow! Technical troubles Roadkill computers Luddite Curmudgeonism Mars and A...

A while back we reported on the Californian travails of long-time listener Rogier, PA1ZZ.   We are happy to report that OM Rogier has joine...

Lulu is running a sale today.  You can get SolderSmoke at 15 percent off by using the coupon code SHADOW when you check out of the Lulu site...

Wow, Jeff REALLY has a bad case of 72N73 (aka "The KNACK").  He's actually piping the SolderSmoke podcast into one earphone of...

Hey Bill, I know you have the knack . . . so I'm coming to you. I've got 31 years of ham radio experience , on top of 16 years ex...

As I mentioned earlier, computer problems have delayed the SolderSmoke podcast (don't worry, parts are on the way).  They have also kn...

No podcast this week. I have two excuses: 1) Computer problems (a long, sad story), and 2) we were once again out in the Sabine Hills. Ab...

In "SolderSmoke -- The Book" I describe the quest for deep understanding of the circuits that we build and use. There is some dis...