Saturday, November 29, 2025

Jay KI5VIR's FB Homebrew SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver

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Jay KI5VIR is a new ham, but you would never know this by looking at his build of the direct conversion receiver: It looks like something bu...

Dave AA7EE's Beautiful (Typically Beautiful) SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver

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Dave Richards AA7EE is justifiably famous in homebrew circles for the beautiful photographs of his rigs, and for the superb documentation of...
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California Typewriter -- Full Movie with Tom Hanks

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I think this one is a bit over the top.  They are way too interested in the old typewirters.  The artist who destroys the old machines to ma...
Friday, November 21, 2025

A Great Story about the Benefits of Repairing Old Gear -- The Bremerton Typewriter Company

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Listen to this in its audio form.  Maybe follow along with the (type?)written text.  Enjoy the pictures and the videos and -- above all -- t...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025

How VU2RM Got Into the Satellites

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  Readers will remember last week's post about the homebrew rivalry between VU2RM and VU2NR. (Note the bio about VU2RM below).  This mor...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Internet Archive / Wayback Machine in an Old Church in San Francisco

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  Three cheers for the Internet Archive!  Among its millions or trillions of things saved, there is the SolderSmoke podcast and blog.   Chec...
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Monday, November 17, 2025

HAARP Test 17 -- 22 November 2025

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  Details here (click on November 2025):  https://haarp.gi.alaska.edu/transmissions Submit signal reports here:   https://haarp.gi.alaska.ed...
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Friday, November 14, 2025

Early SSB in India: Espionage, Stolen Secrets, and Kleptomania

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  Earlier this month I had stumbled across a 1964 QST article entitled "A Sideband Transceiver, VU2 Style."  I forwarded the link ...
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Thursday, November 13, 2025

SolderSmoke Podcast 262: Hybrid Wireless, 100 Watt Amplifier, Antipode VK6, Tropo DR to PR?, Mixers, MAILBAG

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SolderSmoke Podcast #262 is available:  Audio only: http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke262.mp3 Video:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSUyE...
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Monday, November 10, 2025

SolderSmoke Homebrew Direct Conversion Receiver Hall of Fame Update: 99 Completed + 7 Honorable Mentions: Total Receivers Built: 106 (As of November 29, 2025, 1305Z)

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  Please let us know if you spot any errors, or if we have inadvertently missed anyone.  Don't worry about being late to the game -- the...
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Puneit Singh VU2TUM's FB Homebrew 40 meter SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver

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It was really good to see Puneit Singh finish this receiver project.  He overcame many difficulties, including a lot of travel and an acute ...
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Thursday, November 6, 2025

A Visit to the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory (and the surrounding Quiet Zone)

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Because my kids went to college in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, I sometimes found myself asking Google Maps how long it would take to ...
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