SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

Pavel CO7WT explained why Cuban hams used a process of thermal endurance to improved the frequency stability of their homebrew rigs:    ----...

I hope readers have picked up on the discussion of the Islander DSB rig out of Cuba. We had a bit of a breakthrough on this recently. I'...

  Today's aparatus (above).  Chamber is larger and I left the bottom sealed.  It sits directly atop a chunk of dry ice.  The spongeat th...

The VFO Board The "motherboard" for an Islander Islander boards recently obtained in Cuba by CO7WT Pavel CO7WT is making great pro...

  My Cloud Chamber It was time to take a break from building SSB transceivers.  I wanted to build something completely different.  I went wi...

Run, don't walk, to this video series by RF MAN.   He is truly, THE MAN!  Pete N6QW found this series, passed it to Dean KK4DAS, who ale...

This is for CW fans, or for those wishing to improve their CW skills.  You can now listen to the entire H.G. Wells book in CW, thanks to Chu...

  https://spectrum.ieee.org/apollo-era-antenna-voyager-2 From the IEEE article:   The dish’s manufacturer took great pains to ensure that it...

Geoff N6GWB and his eldest have produced a really wonderful receiver, and have joined the elite ranks of those who have built their own rece...

  I have the answer from an excellent and authoritative source.   Here is the question:  The rig I bought for one dollar at Winterfest was p...

  Here is short clip of a very cool HB2HB contact on 17 meters.  Thanks Jens!  Check out his QRZ page here:  https://www.qrz.com/db/DL2RMM

  This was on 60 Minutes last night.  Of course it made me think of our many "Tales of Woe."  Perhaps this could be of use to us. ...