SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

I liked Banzi's presentation and I think you guys will like it too.  A rduino  and the open source movement seems to have something...

On Monday I was talking to Angelo, W8ERN, on 17 meters.   He told me about an SSB transceiver that he had designed for ELMAC, the ATR-4. ...

Give this man a license!  He deserves one.  Great job David.  ----------------- Bill, Found your podcasts (137 & 8) about the HW...

There's today's image from SOHO.  Pretty barren.  That's why conditions on the HF bands are so poor today. While looking fo...

This is a wonderful documentary that will definitely appeal to SolderSmoke listeners.  Check out Jim Gunn working on the electronics for...

    I find myself reading a lot of books about telescopes and cosmology.  I guess this is related to the desire to pull weak DX signals ...

Warning:  In this post we are DEFINITELY leaving the world of QRP.  There is nothing even remotely QRPish about the Heathkit DX-100.  Thi...

SolderSmoke fans will recall that for a long time I have been looking for the radio magazine article that propelled me into a  receiver c...

V enus glides across the sun's face during its previous transit, seen from Flagler Beach Pier in Florida. Photograph by Jim Til...

This morning I stumbled across the web site of M0DAD .  David has built rigs for 40 meters -- one DSB the other SSB.  The SSB rig is pictu...

The radio gods seem to have been guiding me to this web site .  Last night I was listening to 17 meter phone and I heard a station calling...

Yesterday afternoon at around 5:55 pm local time I was pedaling along the Washington and Old Dominion bike trail, on my way home from wor...