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Not really a QRP project (the goal of course is definitely QRO) but Knack victims will find this article and the associated video interestin...

Not bad, especially for a $6000 budget! You can watch it free on You Tube. Here is part one.

Hi Bill, I was at the East Suffolk Wireless Revival yesterday (Sunday) morning – hardly FDIM, but still a nice little flea mark...

There is an interesting technical story about how this was recorded, and how the recording was recently recovered: http://www.timesunion.com...

Radio Guys at University of Virginia, 1966 Hi Bill. I emailed you once to the Yahoo! address, but thought I'd send an updated email to y...

They are coming to pack up my soldering iron next week, so I'm afraid this will be my last Roman creation. You can see the W3PM Colpit...

A while back, Tony Parks very kindly sent me one of his wonderful Softrock RXTX V6.3 Software Defined Radio kits. I took a shot at it, but ...

http://soldersmoke.com Special Four Days In May Edition! Opening music: FDIM Bluegrass Our last (sniff) Italy Travel Report Snakes and Firef...

From Wikipedia: UVB-76 is the callsign of a shortwave radio station that usually broadcasts on the frequency 4625 kHz ( AM full carrier...

I got a nice e-mail from Keith, VE3TZF, that got me thinking about "The Amateur Scientist" by C.L. Strong. The Wiki article on th...

They seem like two very different technologies, right? They are certainly at opposite ends of the speed spectrum. But David, EA1FAQ, has m...

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