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An e-mail exchange on QRP-L this morning about using ceramic resonators in 455 kHz filter circuits (great idea Grayson!) led me to the ham r...

A stiff wind and occasional drizzle did not put off the large attendance of QRP and home building enthusiasts who attended QRP in the Co...

Our book: "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" http://soldersmoke.com/book.htm Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bu...

Bill - I've been following your blog for a while now and am moved to let you know of my recent experience with regens, a subject tha...

Our man in Dayton, Bob Crane, W8SX, sent us a really beautiful picture of my favorite antenna (not the one above). Check it out: http://...

You'll see in the comments attached to my last blog post that our man on the left coast, Steve Smith, gave that cute little Doug DeMaw/V...

I was looking through W1FB's Design Notebook the other day and I came across the above schematic for a direct conversion receiver (page...

Kettering Group, UK From the Chief Designer (AA1TJ): Fellas, I came across an online blurb for the recent book, Sputnik: The Shock of the Ce...

I like the reminder of Sputnik's IGY connection. This is from an article by John Foley. W7ETS, in the October 2007 issue of QST. Be s...

Macquarie Island Bill, I caught half of a report on “The 7:30 Report” on Australia’s public broadcaster ABC TV. Not knowing the full Maw...

From Alan, W2AEW. That's some great test gear! We'll have to watch our steps with Alan around -- he can ID us from the moment we h...

The Early Days of Amateur Radio Slow-Scan TV by Copthorne Macdonald I got my ham license in 1951 at age 15, ...