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Bill -  Thanks so much for featuring The Sproutie on your blog. I heard through my friend Jason NT7S on Twitter that you had built a r...

As a result of all the recent toob talk with Pete Juliano I've been going to work with old copies of Electric Radio in my backpack...

Dave, AA7EE, has a really nice blog article about his experiences with regen receivers.  He writes about a regen kit he built a...

Perhaps in retaliation for all the bad things I've said about regens over the years, the main tuning cap in the old regen I've be...

Last night I was doing some shortwave listening on my new (OLD!) regen.   As always, China Radio International was booming in on multiple ...

Thanks to Bob Crane (and Garrison Keillor):   It's the birthday of Philo Taylor Farnsworth , the inventor of the television, born i...

Bill,   I remember in your Soldersmoke book that you had difficulty for a long time trying to understand how a mixer created the sum and ...

SolderSmoke Podcast #164 is available: August 16, 2014 http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke164.mp3 ANCIENT TRIBAL KNOWLEDGE -- TUBE ...

I'm having a lot of fun shortwave listening with the reborn British regen.  This is the Voice of Vietnam.  I rebuilt the regen using...

That's Radio Havana Cuba. Our book: "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" http://soldersmoke.com/book...

Hi Bill! ... Of all the Amateur Radio related podcasts I've sampled, SolderSmoke has been my favorite.  The reason is...

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