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Last week's snow storm knocked out internet service here. It may be out for a week. This motivated me to get back on the air. I fired up...

This will be discussed in the next podcast, so I thought I'd share some tech details on our theme music. From the artist, Maestro Moj...

Jeri Ellsworth has come up with a contest that will appeal to SolderSmoke fans: A design competition using 555 timers. Check it out: http:...

All is well with the Nano-sail spacecraft, and hams apparently helped find it: “This is tremendous news and the first time NASA has deployed...

The Baltimore Sun has a really nice article on the Voyager spacecraft, and on the guys who have been keeping them going for the past 33 yea...

Kim Newton 256-544-0034 Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. Kimberly.D.Newton@nasa.gov 01.19.11   RELEASE ...

One of my New Year's resolutions was to finally, seriously pay some attention to the audio quality of the SolderSmoke podcast. With its...

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Pretty cool, don't you think? I found this among the stuff that arrived from storage. I must have bought it at a hamfest sometime in t...

In "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" we discuss the way in which Einstein's Special Relativity expl...

Ron Barrett Apparently Pluto's demotion from planet status might have been a bit unfair. Researchers say that the rival to Pluto that wa...

Wow, the website of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a real treasure trove, with lots of ham radio info. Check out their page ab...