SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

Oh man, this is some fascinating stuff: old light bulbs found to be oscillating at VHF! Wayne, VA7AT, stumbled upon this phenomenon at age...

The Chief Designer, Michael, AA1TJ, alerted us to this wonderful post on Roger, G3XBM's blog: http://g3xbm-qrp.blogspot.com/2011/09/sput...

I liked this ad for Google, but I now have the urge to decapitate my garden shed. Check out dad's Drake gear. Late in the clip you ca...

Thanks to Dave, N8SBE, for alerting us to yet another tech treasure trove: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/ Our book: "SolderSmoke -...

Check it out. This gives you an idea of what the August quake was like (albeit from a perhaps the scariest location): http://youtu.be/BgHC2...

Thanks for all the suggestions and encouragement. I agree with WA6ARA that the bandswitch is a likely suspect. For the E socket on the Dr...

So this morning I hear that the solar flux is up around 190 and the higher bands are coming back to life. I turn to my trusty Drake 2-B and...

Some cynical readers will see this as yet another effort on my part to drive up the net asset value of the SSDRA2B Investment Fund, but I r...

I got a kick out of this e-mail from Cory, WA3UVV: Hi, Bill! While listening to SS137, you brought back some warm memories. Bert Ses...

October 4 is approaching and I DO NOT have a homebrew Sputnik transmitter in the works. I hang my head in shame. AA1TJ sent me the parts, ...

The HW-8 rehab project of Ed, WA3WSJ, has led to a nice discussion on QRP-L about the possibility of using the HW-8 as a DSB rig. Mike, KL7...

My HW-7 benefactor, Mike, WA3O, sent me some files related to this rig. Above, the original receiver. Very simple. Note the 40673 dual-g...