SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

From Harv, WA3EIB: I'm an avid follower of Soldersmoke and builder of sorts.  I began as a ham operator in 1965. My parents claim I ...

Greg is a VK6 Australian ham living permanently in Finland.   He has been a SolderSmoke listener for many years.  Greg sent a nice pic...

With SPRAT 162 by my side, armed with an FT37-43 trifilar wound transformer, I popped open the RTL-SDR dongle.  I had hopes of being able...

What makes this short video special is the fact that the music was all completely designed (composed) and homebrewed (played) by Pete hims...

I was recently commenting to Pete that I could use some gear that would give me a better means of checking the bandwidth of my transmissio...

It might not be apparent, but I have it on good authority the guy with the blue face pulling the Brainwagon was saying "BASTA!"...

Greetings Bill, Pete, While between tasks, I put a little work in on the LPF for the Michigan Mighty Mite. I will soon be ready to light...

  I got the Si5351 portion of the new rig going today.  I used an Arduino program from Thomas LA3PNA.  It is relatively barebones, with...

SolderSmoke Podcast #175 is available: http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke175.mp3 18 April 2015 -- Some enhanced audio testing (Mel...

Bill, Pete, In keeping with historical events, I have enclosed a few snap-shots from the 1961 Pittsburgh Press dated Wednesday, April 12...

Mark, K6HX, took a break from Hummingbird photography and captured some of the images streaming down from the International Space Station o...

Well, it has happened to me yet again:  After a somewhat happy period of stubborn luddite rejection of digital technology, yesterday I de...