SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

Steve VE7SL recently discussed Heathkit's wise use of the color green in the VF-1 and DX-100 frequency readouts.   The power of green...

The early fascination with small light bulbs, switches, and batteries confirms the diagnosis. The Ladybird group seems to have led many ...

This is almost too much for an HDR guy to take. Really impressive.  Check out his QRZ.com page: https://qrz.com/db/G0ETP/?mlab=  

Frank ON6UU writes: Hello Soldermelters,   Maybe some interesting news for you as there are some new kits at hand from EA3GCY...

A while back we ran a post about the MDT 40 DSB rig out of Australia. Walter KA4KXX liked the design so much that he built his own versi...

I got on 40SSB this evening and called CQ with my BITX DIGI-Tia.  Hooray!  Jerry W0PWE answered me with HIS 40 Meter DIGI-TIA.  Hi...

A year or so ago Pete and I encouraged Kiran VU2XE to try the BITX.  He followed through, on our suggestion and went a step further, using...

Homebrew Hero Peter Parker has a new book on the market.   I was really taken by his description of the joys of restoring older gear.  Pet...

Earlier this week I shocked Pete Juliano by telling him that I was taking a break from my normal analog, discrete component, no-chips mode...

Don't miss the new posts on the BITX HACKS blog .  There are some great ideas from Don ND6T and some wonderful tribal knowledge from P...

The work of Ken G4IIB has been on this blog before -- he helped many of us make use of the amazing RTL-SDR Dongle SDR receivers.  He...

Rob VK4FFAB wrote a really nice series on how to get started with the LTSPICE circuit simulator.  I'm sure these articles will also h...