SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

Big news on the QRP/homebrew literature front. One of the titans of the genre, Ade Weiss, has released another amazing book about our hobby....

Leap Year Sale at Lulu on "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" http://soldersmoke.com/book.htm

This is about 2 years old, but somehow I missed it. It is really beautiful, and it helps keep things in perspective. Our book: "Solde...

Billy and I went to the Vienna Wireless Association's Winterfest hamfest yesterday. We had a great time and met many SolderSmoke fans. ...

Oh man, I've been a fan of this rig for many years. I first read about it in the pages of SPRAT. Today I stumbled across what appears ...

KC9LIF's bench Hi Bill, FB...What a great addition to your work bench. Congrats, you will put it to good use! I remember that scope w...

I couldn't resist using that title. Stephen from the UK sent me this link to Jeff Duntemann's site about Compactron tubes. Many p...

That, my friends, is a genuine dual-trace, 100 MHz Tektronix oscilloscope. Wow, a new day has dawned on the N2CQR workbench! The 'scop...

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Ray notes that it should be mm not cm Bill, I heard you discussing the gadgets that you have in your shack on a recent SolderSmoke podcast ...

I read the mail of the BITX20 group. Here is some good advice from Farhan: I have often seen builders finishing an entire build, then power...

There it is, sans kick panel. You can see the breadboard (a real one!) on which it is built. The box in the center has the oscillator cir...