SolderSmoke Daily News -- Ham Radio Blog

I was really pleased to see Juan LU2VJM's rapid completion of the SolderSmoke direct conversion receiver.  But I wasn't really surpr...

I really liked this video.  So much amazing wizardry in it.  Just the FPGA Apollo AGC simulator that Mike whipped up.  Wow.  Kudos!   Thei...

Victor is a retired Electrical Engineer from the Netherlands.  He doesn't have a ham radio call sign, but as I have said about other rec...

Garry built a really nice receiver.  I think he is in Australia.  His PTO coil form is  "a piece off an old rotten Australian red cedar...

I didn't realize that "tapesponding" had become so widespread.  I know of two very prominent homebrewers (one now a Silent Key...

Wow, you can see the look of homebrew satisfaction as Nate works Idaho from California with his homebrew Double Sideband Transceiver.  It is...

Dallas is a friend of Lyle WZ5M -- Lyle encouraged him to build this receiver.    Dallas's son is also working on a receiver -- we hope ...

Lyle WZ5M did a great job on his receiver, and in the finest ham radio tradition encouraged two other builders to take up the SolderSmoke ch...

Jim's Vermont DC receiver is really nice.  It is pulling in the 40 meter CW very well.  Check out Jim's QRZ page:   https://www.qrz....

  https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-DX/QST/60s/QST-1968-11.pdf I was thinking about some of the challenges faced by the builders of ...

It is great to see the enthusiasm that John KC9OJV shows for his newly finished DC receiver.   John writes:  I've finished the DCR- Sold...

This is obviously not the style of construction that we would recommend for new builders.  Thus the "Honorable Mention" category. ...