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As always, a very illuminating presentation by Alan.  I wish my oscillators were that stable! And I couldn't help thinking how much s...

Watch out MTV!   There's a new music channel in town!  Music and rigs all by Pete Juliano, under the direction of the famed Italian p...

This one is not about radio or electronics, but over the years many SolderSmoke listeners have written in saying that they liked the open...

Bert, WF7I, was recently struggling to get his BITX 20 going and he asked some good questions about carrier suppression.  I realized that I ...

  SolderSmoke 162 is now available at  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke162.mp3   June 21, 2014 Part II of our interview with Pete J...

  That, my friends, is the look of exhausted contentment that comes after you have FINALLY gotten your new homebrew rig to work, and we...

I'm not a big collector of QSL cards, but this one has been kicking around in boxes and on various hamshack walls for more than 20 y...

The solar flux index was only 151 this morning, but grey line conditions to Japan were very good.  Yoshi, JA1OJJ, was booming in on 17 met...

This morning I was looking at F6FEO's wonderful web site (Frank, KM4AXA is building the 28 Mhz DSB rig from Michel's site) .  Th...

    I've been put together a fishing pole MOXON antenna for 17 meters.  It will be used with my 5 Watt BITX rig.  I need something...

Yea, and that damn gamma ray bust static has been totally messing up the 12 meter band! Someone should complain to the FCC! https://med...

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