SolderSmoke Daily News

Recent posts indexed from this public source.

• SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Challenge: 139 Receivers Built
• This Guy Designed His Own Microprocessor Chip -- But Is This REALLY Design?
• The WN2QHL N2CQR Drake 2-B
• What Does It Mean when Someone Says "You Are 30 Hz Off Frequency"? And How Modern SDR Waterfalls Perpetuate this Myth -- The Rigid Stencil -- PLEASE COMMENT
• Rex W1REX in England with the Original Tuna Tin 2
• Another Blast from the Past -- Dino KL0S in the early 70s -- A Turner mic, a Vibroplex, an HQ-100, a DC receiver, and a tech library.
• Scott K6AUS gets a Drake 2-B from Steve KW4H
• Steve KW4H's Restoration of a Drake 2-B -- Part 3 -- Alignment With a New Calibrator
• Grayson Evans' Modest Proposal: NO MORE VALVES! NO MORE TUBES! THERMATRONS FOREVER! (and a great video)
• More on the Drake 2-B from Steve KW4H -- Part 2 -- Recapping. Cleaning Tubes and Sockets. Tube Tester
• Wow! I Worked Steve KW4H in 1974 -- He was 15 at KP4USN. I was also 15, but in New York, using my Drake 2-B. And I STILL have the QSL card!
• Steve KW4H's Notes on the Drake 2-B -- Part 1 - Excision of an Unnecessary Mechanical Filter
• Other Workshops: Zen and the Art of Model Making -- Please Comment
• Demystification! Not Magic! How Claude and Dean made the KK4DAS -- N2CQR Video (Be Sure to Read the Report Until the End!)
• Claude Makes a Video About N2CQR calling KK4DAS
• Why Chip Circuits Can Never be Truly Homebrew: ASML's Amazing Photolithography -- Please Comment
• Inside the NUVISTOR! Making a 555 Timer with Nuvistors!
• Helge LA6NCA Builds a One Tube CW Transceiver -- And Makes a Contact!
• The Roman Space Telescope
• KW4H -- Steve -- "Knobs > Menus"
• W9TH - Jeff -- Shames Me Into Building a 6T9er -- "You Have No Excuse"
• "Solvitur ambulando." Latin for "It is solved by walking."
• Keeping the Voyager Spacecraft Alive
• Solid State Transformers -- Are the small DC supplies from Amazon small versions of what we need?
• First Earth-Moon-Earth Echoes: 1946 from New Jersey on 111.5 MHz using Military Radar Gear
• Maxwell's Equations Explained
• The Solar Eclipse in Spain, Balloons, and Veritasium
• SolderSmoke Podcast 266: TROUBLESHOOTING! Test Gear, LA6NCA, ZIA Rig, Australia, Nuvistors, 75 AM, MAILBAG
• Why is Lahti on the Dial of the Receiver? Where is Lahti?
• Fixing up a Nice Old (but not TOO old) Receiver in the UK -- What would you have done? Please comment below.
• Some Great Workshop Ideas from Germany -- What do you think? Is there any overkill? Should I stick with the baby-wipe boxes?
• Paul Taylor VK3HN Talks about Hombrew and SOTA
• A German Builder Makes a 2 Meter Receiver - Warts and All!
• Chappy Happy Builds a 25 meter Direct Conversion Receiver using a PAL VFO -- And There Is Distortion of AM SW Broadcast
• Open Sauce 2026 in San Francisco
• Using a 5 inch Naval Gun Mount as a rotor and Being Asked by NASA to Listen for Artemis -- Why no lightning strikes?
• Will N5OLA (the HW-101 Guy) Interviewed by Eric 4Z1UG (Please comment!)
• A Homebrew Workbench from Norway -- Please Comment: What would you have done differently?
• Soft Power and Shortwave Radio -- A BBC Program on the History of Shortwave Radio
• A Really Interesting Workshop Video -- Please comment!
• But did he really create this device? What do you think?
• The Americium 241 Incident
• Hidehiko JA9MAT's Self-Quenching Super-Regenerative Receiver from Japan -- AI Gets It Wrong!
• Understanding Super Regeneration (Good luck!)
• Helge LA6NCA Builds and Uses a Two Tube 80 meter Transceiver -- From Norway
• UK Homebrew VHF Matchbox Bugs
• Someone Else Used the FT-101 VFO Box -- JA9MAT in Japan
• A Homebrew X-Ray Machine from North Macedonia
• A Homebrew Receiver from Hidehiko JA9MAT
• Filters: Crystals, LC, Mechanical, SAW, etc.
• VK3ACU Builds a Transmitter for 3.579 MHz
• Comments on the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver from Andri in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia
• 137 Direct Conversion Receivers -- Recently Built in Bandung, Indonesia. But none in Japan, None in China, None in Africa, and only 1 in all of Latin America!
• Why is AM on 3885 kHz?
• How Were 3.579 MHz Crystals Used in Color Television Sets?
• The 43.333 MHz Crystal in my Nuvistor Converter was Bad. But WHY did I Find Another One in my Junkbox?
• The Smith Chart -- Veritasium Explains its Origins and How it Works
• A Nice Workshop (With The Logical Song)
• How to Build a MODERN Electronics Workshop (and How Much it Might Cost) (PLEASE COMMENT)
• My Parks 2 meter Nuvistor Converter, a QST review, and Bio Info on the Tektronix Hams who Designed It (Who is W7UHF now?)
• The Nuvistor, Thermatrons, RCA, Patents, the Rise of Asian Competitors (and my Parks Electronics 2 Meter Converter)
• A Very Nice Audio Workbench -- With Lots of Great Ideas
• Shuji Nakamura -- Inventor of Blue LEDs -- Takes on Fusion Energy at Age 72
• How Hans G0UPL Cracked the Code for Stable I and Q from the Si5351
• An Interesting Receiver from North Macedonia
• A Really Really Complete South African Workshop
• Vintage Audio Restoration: Glue, Fusible Resistors, and Relays
• SolderSmoke Podcast #265: AI Pete, WSPR, sBITX, San Diego, Last Ditcher, NYC, 17-12 Fix, MMM Blasphemy, 6T9er, MAILBAG
• Update: How Many Drake 2-B Receivers Were Made? Can Someone Send a Drake 2-B to Scott?
• Bob W8SX Interviews Hans G0UPL at FDIM 2026
• 100 Billion Transistors on One Small Chip -- No Room for Homebrew!
• My AI QSL Card: Wood Boxes, a D-104, Books, a 'Scope, the EB-63A, Guapo, our Sticker, and a Cup of Coffee! KK0S's Cards
• A Really FB HB QRP QSL Card from New Zealand
• The RT-6 and RR-6 Motorola "Spy Set"
• First QSO by Chris (aka Morny) G7LQX and it was Homebrew CW!
• Canadian Ham to Include SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver in Teaching Materials for Canadian Ham License
• Sputnik, IGY, Korolev, 1 Watt
• Why It Makes Sense to Take a Break When Stuck on a Problem: "Unleashing Your Creativity" -- Hidden Brain Podcast
• Q Dope, AI, and Homebrew Q Dope: Putting Packing Pellets to Good Use
• Troubleshooting in "2001 -- A Space Odyssey" -- And Trouble with the AI (HAL 9000)
• The Snake Shack of the Amazon
• Pete N6QW's "Last Ditcher" CW Thermatron Rig -- Frank Jones would approve. A new installment of the FMLA series?
• Helge LA6NCA's Norwegian Paraset
• A Possibly Blasphemous Redraw of the Michigan Mighty Mite Schematic
• Google Blogspot and YouTube Stupidity -- Why SolderSmoke is Rejected by the Google Bots
• A New Index for the SolderSmoke Podcast -- Thanks to Peter VK3TPM (with some help from Claude)
• A Very Basic (and Cool) SSB Transmitter from Australia and New Zealand
• A Quick Review of "Open Circuits" by Eric Schlaepfer and Windell H. Oskay
• Eric KK6GZM of CuriousMarc is the Author of Open Circuits
• The Texas Telescope Ranch
• CuriousMarc Repairs the French Oscilloscope of His Youth -- ACHTUNG!
• Building an Electronics Work Bench (and fixing an old CNC Lathe)
• School for Danger -- the SOE, and Radio, in Nazi Occupied France
• Farhan Talks LARCSet (CW & SSB) at FDIM (with a Lot of Homebrew Wisdom)
• Rick N3FJZ on the Red Summit Podcast with Charlie NJ7V
• SolderSmoke 264: CW TX, Repair of 17-12 Rig, AI and Repair, Back on 40m, HB for 2m, VWS WSPR Makers Project , MAILBAG
• A Very Impressive Workshop from the UK
• WA4CHQ -- A Virginian QRPer and Homebrewer
• Radio Receivers -- 1942 Training Film -- Crystal Sets to Superhets
• The TW-100 "Fly Away Transceiver" --- A CW-SSB Rig I Never Heard of Until Today