SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

Bert, WF7I, at Winterfest I had a great time at the Vienna Wireless Winterfest. The weather was very nice, so I moved my sales operation ou...

I'll be at the Vienna Wireless Society's Winterfest hamfest tomorrow morning. I've gathered up all the unnecessary junk in th...

Thanks to a tip from spaceweather.com, Billy, Maria and I were in position to watch the International Space Station fly over the Washington...

Here is a really well-done video on the new EU radio telescope. Very interesting. They are listening as low as 10 MHz. (I hope my little ...

The folks at spaceweather.com report that the International Space Station AND the Nano-Sail D satellite will be visible from North America t...

"I love to revel in philosophical matters - especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a ...

On SolderSmoke Podcast #130 I mentioned that in the book "The Evening Star" by Henry S.F. Cooper, the author mentioned that during...

Today was big day here at SolderSmoke HQ. John, K2ZA, and his lovely wife Erika drove down from New Jersey bringing with them the Heathkit ...

Lulu is running a President's Day sale on SolderSmoke The Book (and everything else they are selling!). Through Feb 21 use the coupon ...

Bill, I immensely enjoyed Solder Smoke -- The Book, and have given it as gifts to several friends. It has rekindled the homebrewing spark, ...

Phil, KD4IDH, sent me links to these two very interesting organizations. We sometimes joke about being "The International Brotherhood o...

Peter Parker, VK3YE, is one of the real DSB Gurus. When I got started in the world of double-wide RF, I would frequently turn to his web ...