Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Dan KF5DAN's FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver

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It is a happy occassion whenever we get to announce a new member of the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver Hall of Fame.  And Dan KF5DAN...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Homebrewing a Quantum Computer

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Ok, now for something completely different, and something that might help us shake off that Ludite moniker.  I've seen lots of videos th...
Friday, July 4, 2025

AI Apocalypse: How Google is Changing the Internet-- Implications for SolderSmoke

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Here's what happened in a nutshell:  During the spring of this year Google rolled out an automatic AI search feature.  So now, when you ...
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Monday, June 30, 2025

Will Everett N5OLA -- the Heathkit Guru from South Texas

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Will N5OLA Will's innovative approach to old, dirty Heathkit transceivers caught my eye:  he gives them a bath.  Like with soap and wate...
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Saturday, June 28, 2025

Alan W2AEW Measures the Minimum Discernible Signal (MDS) of the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver

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So cool that Alan did this.  Here we see a rigrourous measurement of the MDS of our receiver, with a correction for the bandwidth.  Very nic...
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Thursday, June 26, 2025

Hack-A-Day on the Tao of Bespoke Electronics

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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/the-tao-of-bespoke-electronics/#comment-8142333 My comment:   Good post with good points about the under-app...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025

F6GUH: True Homebrew

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  Philippe put it this way:  "Radio is my religion, my shack is my church."  20 Meter transceiver 40 Meter Transceiver 80 meter tr...

WD4CFN Makes Contact Using the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver and a Michigan Mighty Mite

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  Hall of Fame member Steve WD4CFN in Tennessee fired up his 40 meter Mchigan Mighty Mite (above) and made contact with ND4K in Georgia. FB ...
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Monday, June 23, 2025

First Images from the Vera Rubin Observatory (in Chile) Were Posted Today

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Click above for a MUCH better image From the IEEE Spectrum article:  Every night, the telescope will take a thousand images, one every 34 se...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

My Eleven Contacts using the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver -- It is NOT a toy!

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I have made 11 contacts using the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion receiver.  Ten of the 11 were after June 3, 2025. This was in very casual op...

Mike KM5Z's SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver

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Congratulations to Mike KM5Z on the completion of his SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver.  Welcome to the Hall of Fame.  Mike writes:  F...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

More on Agent Sonya

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I had completely forgotten that my blog had at least two posts on Agent Sonya way back in 2009.  I know there is a lot of interest in her al...
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