SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

Here's another dose of inspiration from one of our "Homebrew Heroes." Forrest Mims has been one of my heroes for a long time....

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The QRSS world was recently mystified by the sudden appearance of this monster on the European grabber screens. People quickly realized tha...

Kitty Hawk N.C., Thanksgiving 2010. Wright Brother's test site. The big rock marks the take-off point. You can see a reproduction of ...

We spent a very pleasant Thanksgiving day with family out on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, in Kitty Hawk. Of course, we visited the sit...

Frosty, K5LBU, sent us this report from Botswana: I just completed reading your book tonight. I had taken it with me on the Dxpedition to B...

"Sky and Telescope" has a nice collection of on-line astronomy utilities . One of my favorites displays the positions of Jupiter...

A while back we had post about amateur RADAR. The wizard behind that project was Greg, N8ZRY. (I liked his quote: "Old radars do not...

Bill, W4HBK, sent a nice note in response to my blog post describing his MEPT QRSS grabber receive station. You can see the peninsula he d...

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The folks at spaceweather.com have come up with something really cool. We are now in the final phases of the annual Leonids meteor shower. ...