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N6QW Selfie SolderSmoke Podcast #182 is available http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke182.mp3 Travelogue:  In Shenandoah with B...

Update on a story we mentioned a few weeks ago: Since October 16, the SETI institute has been using its Allen Telescope Array t...

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I pulled an old Eico 435 'scope out of retirement.  I hope to use it as a modulation monitor (any suggestions on easy ways to hook ...

Lately  I found myself looking for something different to get involved in.  Pete's conversion of his Ten-Tec commercial rig got me t...

N2CQR & N6QW,   I ran across a reference to the SolderSmoke book and read through it very quickly.  Through the book, I discove...

Eric:  Wow, great news from Waco.  JOO indeed!  And I really liked the WAY you did it, liberating crystals and wire from old TVs.   That ...

Feast your eyes my friends.   That is 400 micro-microfarads of variable capacitance.  (400 picofarads for you sophisticated young folks.)...

FB Stuart!  Great work.  Pete is sending you info on a Low Pass filter that will clean up that harmonic-rich signal. 

When you are done, be proud of what you have accomplished! Use it on the air and show it off to your friends an amaze them. Then clean t...

Miguel PY2OHH is the Wizard of Sao Paulo. This morning I was looking at his wonderful web site and came across this little rig.  It...

Gregory Charvat N8ZRY Yesterday I was talking to Allen W5SQK on 17.  He mentioned that he been working in his shop. You don't he...