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• SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Challenge: 139 Receivers Built
• This Guy Designed His Own Microprocessor Chip -- But Is This REALLY Design?
• 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
• Rediscovering the Xiegu X6200: A QRP CW POTA Activation at Umstead State Park
• 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.
• Low Battery & One Watt: K4SWL's Unintentional Morning POTA Challenge!
• MY Homebrew CW QRP Shack
• Why Chip Circuits Can Never be Truly Homebrew: ASML's Amazing Photolithography -- Please Comment
• It's all in the community
• Contesting 101: Radio Frequency Interference and the Contest Station
• Helge LA6NCA Builds a One Tube CW Transceiver -- And Makes a Contact!
• Homebrew ATUs & Matching Units for QRP — Peter HB9EBE
• Upcoming POTA Activation’s
• Doing it! ~ POTA and FT-8 on a Homebrew Transceiver and Digital Adapter
• 📡 FlexRadio 6500 DX! 🔥 W4KWS Hears W4SAL & W2GGI on 80 Meters | Aether SDR
• Short Wire Winder Update #hamradio #antenna #parksontheair #homebrew
• Ham Radio Portable Operating Insights—POTA Activation Essentials & Gear You Can Keep at Home
• A 7 Transistor 20M SSB Transceiver with updated display.
• Portable Antenna Homebrew Magic with Rich N4VS
• Portable Antenna Homebrew Magic with Rich N4VS
• A Regulated Voltage Rechargeable Battery Power Source for Portable QRP Operation
• 50 Years Licensed and Still Building — Gary W0MNA & Martha W0ERI
• The Bands Are Back! FT-891 CW POTA at Hagerman NWR | 30' End-Fed Random Wire
• A German Builder Makes a 2 Meter Receiver - Warts and All!
• Homebrew Ham Radio... For the very small percentage who can do stuff.
• Homebrew Transceivers Designed for the Trail — Paul VK3HN
• Open Sauce 2026 in San Francisco
• Pileup! CW POTA at Hagerman NWR | FT-710 + 30ft End-Fed Random Wire (US-0548)
• Legendary DXer Bob Locher, W9KNI, Presents Tales from a Serial Sniper Part 2, “Looking South”
• A Homebrew Workbench from Norway -- Please Comment: What would you have done differently?
• Building a homebrew remote antenna switch box.
• Why My Helical Antenna Is So Successful!
• Helge LA6NCA Builds and Uses a Two Tube 80 meter Transceiver -- From Norway
• POV: Working Two Continents Through My Meta Glasses 🕶️ Turks & Caicos + 5,516 Miles to Bulgaria
• UK Homebrew VHF Matchbox Bugs
• Worked Bulgaria on a Wire I Built Myself 📡 #hamradio
• FISTS On-air activities: Ladder, Top Gun and Mechanical Key 24 Hour Sprint
• 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
• 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!
• The 43.333 MHz Crystal in my Nuvistor Converter was Bad. But WHY did I Find Another One in my Junkbox?
• How to Build a MODERN Electronics Workshop (and How Much it Might Cost) (PLEASE COMMENT)
• Build & Test - 3-Element DX Yagi... Without a Gamma Match!
• Homebrew Ham Radio Equipment
• How Hans G0UPL Cracked the Code for Stable I and Q from the Si5351
• Hackaday Spotlights a Clever DIY Si5351 Radio Project
• SolderSmoke Podcast #265: AI Pete, WSPR, sBITX, San Diego, Last Ditcher, NYC, 17-12 Fix, MMM Blasphemy, 6T9er, MAILBAG
• SolderSmoke Podcast 265: AI Pete, WSPR, HB sBITX, HB CW, RX TIA Fix, MMM schematic, 6T9 Rig, Mailbag
• Ham Radio Crazy or Cool? M0YKS A.I Profile
• 100 Billion Transistors on One Small Chip -- No Room for Homebrew!
• First QSO by Chris (aka Morny) G7LQX and it was Homebrew CW!
• Morse code will never die…
• Q Dope, AI, and Homebrew Q Dope: Putting Packing Pellets to Good Use
• DIY 49:1 EFHW Antenna Build & Test (160m - 6m Analyzer Results)
• Replacing the relays in the Yaesu FT-480R (FT-280)
• Hearing W1AW Live on the Chuck Adams W1AW Receiver — Part 3
• Does This Audio Stage Work? W1AW Direct Conversion Receiver Part 2
• Farhan Talks LARCSet (CW & SSB) at FDIM (with a Lot of Homebrew Wisdom)
• Rick N3FJZ on the Red Summit Podcast with Charlie NJ7V
• Some days are like running in place ...
• Oscilloscope Failed Me, My Yaesu FTdx10 Didn't — W1AW Receiver LO Tuning
• SolderSmoke 264: CW TX, Repair of 17-12 Rig, AI and Repair, Back on 40m, HB for 2m, VWS WSPR Makers Project , MAILBAG
• SolderSmoke Podcast #264 - CW TX, Repair 17-12, 40m, HB for 2m, WSPR, MAILBAG
• WA4CHQ -- A Virginian QRPer and Homebrewer
• The Adventure Begins in Xenia: Hamvention 2026
• The Agony of Troubleshooting -- Shielding, Bypassing, Testing, Throwing Things at the Wall
• Homebrew Cylindrical Variable Capacitors: What the Steering Wheels are Controlling in Danny's Regen Receiver
• Other Workshops: Homebrew Sailboats
• This Mast Lift FAILED… Here’s Why
• Heathkits and American Industrial Decline
• SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver -- Total Receivers Built: 133 (125 plus 8 honorable mentions). Total Count: 133. Receivers built in 19 countries.
• Another 40 meter DSB Transceiver
• The Fun & Excitement of Antenna Building | An Interview with “Salty Walt” K4OGO
• Indonesian Direct Conversion Receiver (Another one - Not Wayan's)
• DSB Homebrew from Macedonia -- Sasho Z33ST
• SolderSmoke Homebrew Direct Conversion Receiver Hall of Fame Update: 129 Completed, 122 + 7 Honorable Mentions: (As of April 11, 2026, 0852Z)
• ANOTHER AMAZING Homebrew Station -- This one from Belgium -- ON1MWS
• A really AMAZING Homebrew Station in Brunei
• U.S. Administration Supports Ham Radio Homebrew
• April Fools' Day 2026 Round-up
• SDR vs. HDR -- Are analog hams Troglodytes, stuck in a rut, resistant to change, and all that ?
• We Interrupt this program for Breaking News
• The ARRL's "Clean Signal Initiative" -- Does the ARRL Now ASSUME all Transmitters are Manufactured?
• Repairing a ("smoked") MFJ-998 1.5kW automatic antenna tuner
• Repairing a ("smoked") MFJ-998 1.5kW automatic antenna tuner
• Native Linux Client for FlexRadio Transceivers – AetherSDR announced
• 3000 sailors and 6 single women. Chapter 7
• SolderSmoke Homebrew Direct Conversion Receiver Hall of Fame Update: 128 Completed, 121 + 7 Honorable Mentions: (As of April 5, 2026, 0833Z)
• ZX81: The 1981 Computer That Revolutionized Radio #shorts
• Modifying the MFJ-5008 parabolic ultrasonic receiver for better sensitivity and wider frequency response
• Rex Harper on the 50th Anniversary of the Tuna Tin 2 -- DONATIONS NEEDED!
• A Neat Regen Circuit from W3IRZ
• SolderSmoke Podcast 263: DR-PR, UM, DCRX, SKN, Design, PSSST, W7ZOI, FT-101, HW32A, VK, HST, AMP, MAILBAG
• SolderSmoke Podcast #263 DR-PR, UM, DCRX, SKN, Design, W7ZOI, FT-101, HW32A, VK, HST, AMP, MAILBAG
• Money for nothing and the chicks are free.
• Switching Sidebands in a Transmitter.
• A QSO with Dean KK4DAS (Northern Virginia to Dominican Republic)
• Magnetic Loop Antennas