{"id":4854,"date":"2009-05-09T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/05\/09\/soldersmoke-the-book-on-sale-now\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:56:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:56:45","slug":"soldersmoke-the-book-on-sale-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/05\/09\/soldersmoke-the-book-on-sale-now\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke — The Book! On Sale Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> SolderSmoke is the story of a secret, after-hours life in<\/span>
electronics. Bill Meara started out as a normal kid, from a normal <\/span>
American town. But around the age of 12, he got interested in <\/span>
electronics, and he has never been the same. <\/span>
To make matters worse, when he got older he became a diplomat. His <\/span>
work has taken him to Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, the Spanish Basque <\/span>
Country, the Dominican Republic, the Azores islands of Portugal, <\/span>
London, and, most recently, Rome. In almost all of these places his <\/span>
addiction to electronics caused him to seek out like-minded radio <\/span>
fiends, to stay up late into the night working on strange projects, and <\/span>
to build embarrassingly large antennas above innocent foreign <\/span>
neighborhoods. SolderSmoke takes you into the basement workshops and <\/span>
electronics parts stores of these exotic foreign places, and lets you <\/span>
experience the life of an expatriate geek. If you are looking for <\/span>
restaurant or hotel recommendations, look elsewhere. But if you need to <\/span>
know where to get an RF choke re-wound in Santo Domingo, SolderSmoke is <\/span>the book for you. <\/span>
SolderSmoke is no ordinary memoir. It is a technical memoir. Each <\/span>
chapter contains descriptions of Bill\u2019s struggles to understand (really <\/span>
understand) radio-electronic theory. Why does P=IE? Do holes really <\/span>
flow through transistors? What is a radio wave? How does a frequency <\/span>
mixer produce sum and difference frequencies? If these are the kinds <\/span>
of questions that keep you up at night, this book is for you. <\/span>
Finally, SolderSmoke is about brotherhood. International, <\/span>
cross-border brotherhood. Through the SolderSmoke podcast we have <\/span>
discovered that all around the world, in countries as different as <\/span>
Sudan and Switzerland, there are geeks just like us, guys with <\/span>
essentially the same story, guys who got interested in radio and <\/span>
electronics as teenagers, and who have stuck with it ever since. Our <\/span>
technical addiction gives us something in common, something that <\/span>
transcends national differences. And our electronics gives us the means <\/span>
to communicate. United by a common interest in radio, and drawn closer <\/span>
together by means of the internet, we form an \u201cInternational <\/span>
Brotherhood of Electronic Wizards.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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