SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

Dean KK4DAS continues to do great things with his Michigan Mighty Mite.  He has been calling CQ on the Color Burst Liberation Army ...

Oh wow!  Santa Claus made a really long distance DX trip to SolderSmoke's East Coast HQ last night.   His chief Elf this time was P...

QRZ.com says we are 5.9 miles away.   The U.S. Postal Service almost prevented this from happening -- they objected to my just putting the...

Bill's uBITX with HB keys and the mic that used to be the podcast mic!  SolderSmoke Podcast #216 is available  21 December 2019 ...

For those who want to get started in circuit simulation, or to improve your use of the LTSpice program: https://www.youtube.com/playlist...

My ET-2 minimalist QRP CW adventure is (for now) officially over.   I have taken the rig - festooned with the callsigns of all the stati...

I'm currently reviving my "version 3" uBITX and putting it on CW.  It sounds and works great, but when I saw this I realized...

I was watching Greg Charvat's great video about the WWII ARC-5 receiver yesterday. Greg admonished all of us to preserve any WWII ...

When Farhan announced that BITX40 Module boards would no longer be produced,  my first thought was that it is, of course, still possi...

A peak sunspot number of 115 might seem paltry, until you remember that we are at ZERO now.  https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/solar-cycl...

Farhan had given me one of the early Dayton Hamvention models of the Antuino SWR/PWR/SNA RF test lab.  He later identified the need for ...

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