Jeff Tranter's Blog

While waiting for my Briel Superboard III kit , I was reminded of a book that I blogged about last year. The Visible Monitor program in t...

The Zenith Trans-Oceanics were an extremely popular (although expensive) series of shortwave portable radios made by Zenith from the 1940s t...

The first computer I owned was an Ohio Scientific Superboard II. Bought in 1980, it was the only reasonably complete computer on the market...

Here is a quick solution I put together earlier this week. The fumes from solder (more so the flux rather than lead) are not particularly he...

Despite all the reasons I listed in my last blog post on why Heathkit could not successfully reenter the kit business today, I believe they ...

Last year Heathkit announced on their website  that they would be making a return to offering kits, placed an extensive survey on their web...

My latest kit building project is a Lil Squall ][ from qrpme.com . This is a QRP (low power) ham radio transceiver kit that, like most of t...