SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

A few years back Ian Keyser, G3ROO, put together a really wonderful antenna book. It is very "down to earth," very practical, ve...

I thought it was kind of cool that the amateur satellite spotting community has been able to locate and determine the orbit of the X-37B . ...

Andrew, G4CWX, reminded me that the folks at Lulu are having a 20% off sale. Today only. So you can save a lot on SolderSmoke -- The Boo...

I don't think they are radio amateurs, but these guys seem to have The Knack. That's an edge-of-space balloon payload they built. ...

We were out in the country this weekend and I brought along the little DaVinci 10 milliwatt QRSS beacon. I was hoping that it would do be...

I was feeling kind of bad about the fact that while free shipping for the book is available for readers in the U.S., people from other coun...

Snappy title, don't you think? I think it could become a TV series, maybe if the Discovery channel someday gets into QRP and homebrew....

Paul, M0XPD, reports that he has joined the DSB revolution and has put a homebrew DOUBLE Sideband WSPR signal on the air. The rig is picture...

Lulu just announced free shipping on the book (to U.S. addresses only) for the whole summer. Starting now. But before you order, consider...

My kids watch this show. Here's an interesting article about the writers and their science/math backgrounds: http://www.aps.org/publica...

On Sunday I was working on my little DaVinci QRSS transmitter. I had it on, happily generating FSK on 30 meters. Then all of a sudden I n...

Here is the schematic for the little QRSS (visual) transmitter that is currently rockin' Europe's 30 meter band with an AWESOME 20 m...