SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

My rehabilitation of homebrew 17 meter gear from the last solar cycle continues. Following the same path that I followed in 2001-2002, I wi...

Phillip Torrone over on Maker blog has a good article about the Arduino, and what you can do with it. I especially liked his comments on t...

In case anyone in the SolderSmoke community has not yet visited the site of Kazuhiro Sunamura... Be sure to check out his site. He has a r...

The solar flux index is now above 131 and the effects are very apparent on 17 meters. (I will pull out the telescope this morning to get s...

On Wednesday we were all waxing nostalgic about 73 Magazine. (Did anyone figure out how to download ALL 511 of them?) I mentioned that I r...

Some of my earliest ham radio memories are of 73 Magazine. Perhaps this has something to do with the electro-erotica cover shots of the ear...

I was reading the October 1962 issue of 73 Magazine (we're always on the cutting edge here!). In the back pages a little piece from K4FQ...

Wow, what a beautiful piece of work! And a fascinating story behind it, with hints of wartime romance... Thanks to Mike AA1TJ whose very ec...

Wow, congratulations to the California Near Space team. Their balloon flew from Silicon Valley, across the U.S., across the Atlantic and i...

This is not the most flattering picture of our friend Alan, VK2ZAY, but I find myself forced to use it (again!) because of the Christmas lig...

Thanks to Leif KC8RWR for alerting me to this. Amazing stuff, but somehow I think they need to get an Altoid tin into this project. You ...

Steve Smith, WB6TNL, and I often find ourselves on the same frequency: Hi Bill, After reading your latest blog post, I realized that you...