SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

Pete WB9FLW alerted us to the work of Peter DK7IH, a very talented homebrewer who recently followed the lead of Pete N6QW in building som...

We had some posts about this kid a few years ago.   He is 21 now and was recently interviewed on the TED Radio Hour -- the nine minute inte...

This is from 2014, but I stumbled upon Wayne Burdick's article just this morning.  Great stuff.  That picture of Wes had a big impact...

I found myself almost cheering out loud as I listened to this wonderful interview , especially at the point where Hans lets it be known th...

Some fellow jumped into the BITX20 yahoo group this morning, casting aspersions on our friend Farhan.  The fellow alleged that a lot of...

A very nice Christmas present from Farhan in Hyderabad!   An Si5351/Arduino Nano VFO for the ALREADY AWESOME BITX 40 Module.   I'm rea...

Jerry AA6KI sent me a nice website about radio hero E. Howard Armstrong . It contained an image that seemed to cry out for a meme.  I...

NPR's "Science Friday" produced this very nice video on India's successful mission to Mars. Really nice.

SolderSmoke Podcast #192 is available: http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke192.mp3 N6QW COMPLETING AN ORBIT TOMORROW!!!! Happy Birthda...

There is a lot of radio history in this shortwave transmitting station.  I came across it tonight with my BITX DIGI-TIA rig.  It was on 7...

Jim AB3CV reminded me this morning about the work of Eric NO3M.  Jim was pointing out that breadboard construction need not be ugly a...

As the proud owner of what has to be one of the world's UGLIEST BITX 40 Modules. I feel somehow qualified to declare Pete's ver...