SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

I like this telescope.  The owner built it in 7th grade and is still using it at age 70.  I'm still using the Drake 2-B that I bought...

Most of our correspondents did not like the idea of me trying to convert my Heath HW-101 into a BITX-101.  But, thinking that I still mi...

http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/viganella-the-italian-village-that-built-its-own-sun.html Our book: "SolderSmoke -- Global Advent...

    NPR's "Writer's Almanac" alerted us to this:    Shep was born on this day in 1925.  I realize now that that made...

    OK, so I've been wanting to build a BITX-20 for a long time.  Then Steve "Snort Rosin" Smith sent me a nice 9 MHz f...

   I like it!  Here we find some cutting edge radio technology that does not involve millions of microscopic transistors and thousands ...

Look closely.  We're the little dot.  Photo taken July 19 2013 by the Cassini probe.   People were waving!  Really:  http://www.newsc...

Well, you know that you are really in the high power big leagues when your transmitter requires a cooling pond, and you have to put on wel...

Bill and Soldersmoke readers, One of the earliest and still surviving Drake 2Bs is owned by Paul Brock (K4MSG) of Hamilton, Virgini...

QST gave the book a very nice review in their August edition.  But they got the price of the paper edition wrong -- it is definitely not $...

Our friend Grayson put a lot of effort into this very interesting timeline of tubes (aka valves, or thermatrons).  Thanks Grayson! http://...

Thanks to those who sent me the review.   Got it.  I heard the August qst has a review of the soldersmoke book. I'm away from home. ...