SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

Read and heed, or you'll be sorry.  The cold weather causes us to spend more time in the shack and to work on new homebrew project.  Som...

Well, we were talking about it on 40.   This just proves that there is more to 40 meter SSB than the never-ending quest for audio "br...

Wow!  Now THAT is a shack! This morning I heard Butch K0BS and his friends on 40 meter SSB.  I knew I was listening to the voices of kind...

Driving home from work the other day I heard this NPR interview with the woodworking guy from the TV show "Parks and Recreation....

Jeff "Roadkill" Damm  Wow, THE RADIO GODS HAVE SPOKEN (TRGHS).  Pete gets on 40 with his new-old FPM5 homebrew rig and wo...

I've been working with an Arduino today.  Seeing this video makes me feel like such an APPLIANCE OPERATOR.  FB OM!  No store-bought my...

Perhaps this was a reaction to a frustrating morning spent trying to get a 20x4 digital display to work with an Si5351 and an Arduino Uno ...

I should have tried this a long time ago.  It works great.  The power supply that I picked up at the Kempton Park rally many years ago  h...

Farhan alerted us to a very interesting presentation on the history of single sideband:  It was in episode 81 of Bob Heil's "Ham ...

The fan that I installed yesterday was driving me nuts.  It was noisy, both acoustically and electrically.  And I would occasionally get m...

I was going to put the BITX40 Module in a box today, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. That board looks too good to be hi...

I blame Pete for this.  And Farhan.  Pete has been leading us astray with all his talk of high power linear amplifiers ("Two 813s kid...