SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

The new shack is coming together in HI7 land.   I will need a shelf for the test gear -- I am looking for something thatcan sit on the main ...

  I know there are some readers who dislike Starlink, but I think the technology is interesting.    This morning I saw an article  about how...

As I get ready to build the SolderSmoke Shack South, the Radio Gods (well at least YouTube) keep sending me these workshop videos.  Today...

Farhan and his son Rayyan with an sBITX The SolderSmoke crew thought it had a tough time this Field Day:  Pete N6QW had hoped to do somethin...

Wow. Really great test gear, and an amazing parts collection.   This guy even gets a "nice workshop" comment from Mr. Carlson.   P...

Pretty amazing, I think.  They have 6,000 of them up there now, and more to come.  They burn in every five years so there is a constant oppo...

Thanks to Roy WN3F for alerting me to this.  Tadashi-san has really built some beautiful stuff.  Especially impressive to me is his use of t...

One commenter questioned why we went with the more expensive Starlink system.  The simple answer is that it is just better, faster, and more...

Our friend Lex astutely focused on the date of the release of our report about legal prosecution by the City of San Francisco.  The truth is...

We are in the Dominican Republic for a little while. Yesterday we got Starlink working.   The picture show me holding the cell phone heraldi...

Great stuff!  We were really fortunate to have Farhan and Humera visit the SolderSmoke East shack after Dayton and FDIM.  Dean and I had a c...

Walter KA4KXX spotted an error in the schematic of my 2014 "Off the Shelf" regen receiver: The source resistor on the MPF-102 sho...