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27 April 2019 SolderSmoke Podcast #211 is available http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke211.mp3 Pete NOT quitting podcast!  Malicious ...

Really great to see this session with Nobel Prize winner Joe Taylor, K1JT. I liked his comments on his use of his retirement office at Pr...

Is this a thing of beauty, or what?   Pete sent this to me back when I was having trouble finding a "smooth running" variable...

"Sexiest Radio!"   Hmmmm. "It's the bomb."  https://www.facebook.com/DXEngineering/videos/815962828760101/ The...

After I issued a luddite complaint lamenting the arrival in ham radio of appliance-like "remote heads", Ed KC8BSV pointed out th...

I'm sure some would find this device appealing -- to each his own.   But I don't like it.   It seems to mark another step down ...

Necessity is indeed the mother of invention.   This video made me think of the Jaguar DSB transceiver made in Cuba from the parts of Sov...

I kept waiting for OUR hobby to be mentioned....

Lots of wisdom and insight here: http://www.jezzamon.com/fourier/index.htm Strongly recommended for those trying to understand mixer...

In  a book  review  Thompson makes this observation about the digital-analog divide:  One difference might be that human beings can d...

Alan WA9IRS writes:  Hi Bill, Thought I would drop you a brief note.   I have been catching up on my listening to past issues...