SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

OK, I take back all of the bad things I said about the 75 meter phone band. I recently finished work on my Kick Panel 75 meter DSB rig.  L...

Take a look at this NASA page on zero gravity soldering.   Just look at that rosin go!   http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at...

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-23/techshop-paradise-for-tinkerers#p1 We've talked about these places before.  Lots of p...

  Bill,       Really enjoyed SolderSmoke 143, great job as always. I wanted to fill you in on the happenings at the WA6ARA QRP Ranch. ...

Our Bay Area correspondent Rogier (orignally PA1ZZ, now KJ6ETL) recently sent us links to two very interesting sites.   The first is a c...

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

Wow, here's another thing to worry about:  Has your solder expired?  Is it past its "use by" date? This came up in the discu...

The 2006 ARRL Handbook had it right.  Jeremiah went back and took a look:  Bill: I have a comment about the question of the LSB/USB co...

Walter, AJ4UM, alerted us to this. Here's yet another treasure trove of ham radio literature.  I'm going to have to retire just to...

Mike, KC7IT, alerted us to a very interesting EDN article about the performance of modern ham transceivers: http://www.edn.com/article/52...

From: Dave Haupt Subject: Club 465 To: n2cqr Date: Monday, May 7, 2012, 1:40 PM I work at Tektronix, in a group that designs, among othe...

You guys will get a kick out of this:  An old unbuilt Heathkit is discovered , and is then put together by "Evil Mad Scientist."...