SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

  There it is.  The 2021 re-creation of the WN2QHL Novice Amateur Radio Station.  This is what I had when I first went on the air in April 1...

Rod Newkirk, W9BRD wrote the "How's DX?" column of QST magazine from 1947 to 1978.  He had a wonderful writing style.  His col...

  There is lot of information about early SSB and DSB operations in the GE Sideband Handbook (1961).  Lighthouse Larry is very informative. ...

Just stunning, in their simplicity and beauty.  Really amazing work.  Kind of reminiscent of my ET-2, but with tubes, and much nicer constru...

It must have been great to have been a ham during the heyday of homebrew gear.  Imagine walking into your local club and finding a dozen or ...

I was very happy to read this morning (on the G-QRP e-mail list) that the amazingly useful web site of Homebrew Hero Kazuhiro Sunamora has b...

 -- This is really interesting technology.  Three cheers for Joe Taylor and colleagues.  This mode would obviously be very useful for fast, ...

So much radio goodness in this video.  The enthusiasm of the narrator is unmistakable, and entirely justified.  A number of things struck me...

  There is a lot of really excellent information and tribal knowledge in the 1959 issue of Bill Orr's Radio Handbook.  I was especially ...

  Idle hands are the devil's workshop my friends.  I was home alone this week, and kind of ran out of things to do.  I started thinking ...

I've been hanging out on 17 meters with my homebrew VXO-controlled BITX transceiver.  The antenna is my 75 meter doublet fed with window...

A thing of beauty.