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