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I picked this generator at the Kempton Park rally in London many years ago.  I use it quite a bit, not only for circuit testing but also as ...

Hams in Hyderabad, India held a Field Day this week.  That looks like a uBITX next to that HT.  FB!  More info here:  http://telanganatoday....

Soldersmoke Podcast #228 is available:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke228.mp3 Of course, no travel.   But vaccines are here so maybe soo...

Yesterday I turned to the SolderSmoke wizards for advice on how to fix my KLH Model Twenty-one II FM receiver.   I had finally gotten the th...

I've been working on this nice old FM receiver that Rogier PA1ZZ sent me.  When I first tried it, it sounded terrible. I thought it migh...

Over on Hack-A-Day Jenny List (G7CKF)  has a really nice article about ham radio and homebrewing.  She truly has The Knack:  She got her sta...

  http://www.alphalpha.org/radar/poem/story.html Thanks to Allan WA9IRS for sharing this with us. 

Hack-A-Day had a nice post about this piece of gear:  https://hackaday.com/2021/01/18/q-multiplier-er-multiplies-q/ My radio emotions were s...

Interesting video.  -- Good discussion of the transition from tubes.   -- Go Arlington, Virginia!  -- Nice video of Bardeen, Brattain and Sh...

  Earlier this month I posted a note from Kevin AA7YQ describing his effort to design and build a nice transceiver that mixes the best of ...

Oh man, how could I have possibly missed this one?  Perhaps I didn't, but even if this one has been on the blog before, it is so good th...

Even though I am more of an HDR guy, I really liked Nick's SDR rig.  I like the modular approach, with all the modules inside a transpar...