SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

Hans: Live and let live OM! Some people like their diodes up and red, others down and blue! Any little diode would, of course, work as a s...

I first met Alan, VK2ZAY, years ago when his web site alerted Billy and me to the fascinating world of trivial electric motors. Over the y...

This morning the mailing lists alerted me to a video of a recent talk by George Dobbs, G3RJV, of the G-QRP club. As I sat here in Rome and...

There it is. That's the rig we've been talking about. The astable multi-vibrator sits in the upper right. The Colpitts oscillator t...

Somehow this goofy circuit diagram (sent to me by Mike, KC7IT) seems appropriate this morning. That is because, gentlemen, this diagram rep...

Thanks for all the advice. I especially liked the LTSpice model -- it was good to get back to that great program. I plugged in the values ...

Having made good progress on my Ugly, Discrete Component, DC recever for 30 meters, this week I turned my attention to the little QRSS tran...

This is an early Monday morning event. Lots of SolderSmoke fans within visual range of this flight path. (Somebody please alert Jerry, NR5...

Hi Bill, Thought you would be interested in the attached pics, one shows a power meter that a colleague made for me. I had mentioned to my c...

Rafael in Mexico sent me some very interesting info about World Moonbounce Day. Today! From: "MM" Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010...

The Maker blog has a really great 20 minute podcast interview with Forrest Mims. He talks about his recently deceased friend Ed Roberts, fo...

Well, it turns out that yesterday was a GREAT day for a new receiver. When I got home from work 30 meters was open. I fired up the new rec...