SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

We did a short article on Yi Yao a while back , noting that he definitely has The Knack.   His homebrew frequency counter  (above) confi...

Thanks to David Umbaugh (and his son!) for alerting me to this really great article in The Atlantic on one intrepid amateur who has chose...

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For the last few days I've been hanging out on 20 meter CW, 14.050 - 14.060 MHz, using my re-built W1VD/Barbados rig.   I've had ...

  From Mike, AA1TJ: I called CQ on 20m CW for a couple of hours yesterday afternoon with no response. With the cadence of my own Morse...

Something to be considered by those hoping to win the Elser-Mathes Cup . http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-108 Our b...

I literally blew the dust off this thing last week.  I posted the schematic a few days ago (scroll down).   This morning I finished ...

Chris, KD4PBJ, of SMT Solutions , sent us a thumb drive with pictures and videos of his visit to the Southern Appalachian Radio Museum.   ...

I wish my prototypes (or final products!) looked this good.    I like the way Lee puts the switches onto the prototype board.  Very n...

https://github.com/threeme3/WsprryPi This site shows you how to use a $35 Raspberry Pi Computer as an RF transmitter for the WSPR (Wea...

Hello Bill, This might be down the drain for you, but I only listen to your podcast very few months: The background hiss you mention...

A recent e-mail got me thinking about Doug DeMaw's Barebones Superhet.  June 1982 QST.  Mostly 40673 Dual Gate MOSFETS (this one'...