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SolderSmoke is the story of a secret, after-hours life in
electronics. Bill Meara started out as a normal kid, from a normal
American town. But around the age of 12 he got interested in
electronics, and he has never been the same. To make matters worse,
when he got older he became a diplomat. His work has taken him to
Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, the Spanish Basque Country, the
Dominican Republic, the Azores islands of Portugal, London, and, most
recently, Rome. In almost all of these places his addiction to
electronics caused him to seek out like-minded radio fiends, to stay
up late into the night working on strange projects, and to build
embarrassingly large antennas above innocent foreign neighborhoods.
SolderSmoke takes you into the basement workshops and electronics
parts stores of these exotic foreign places, and lets you experience
the life of an expatriate geek. If you are looking for restaurant or
hotel recommendations, look elsewhere. But if you need to know where
to get an RF choke re-wound in Santo Domingo, SolderSmoke is the book
for you.
http://soldersmoke.com/book.htm
electronics. Bill Meara started out as a normal kid, from a normal
American town. But around the age of 12 he got interested in
electronics, and he has never been the same. To make matters worse,
when he got older he became a diplomat. His work has taken him to
Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, the Spanish Basque Country, the
Dominican Republic, the Azores islands of Portugal, London, and, most
recently, Rome. In almost all of these places his addiction to
electronics caused him to seek out like-minded radio fiends, to stay
up late into the night working on strange projects, and to build
embarrassingly large antennas above innocent foreign neighborhoods.
SolderSmoke takes you into the basement workshops and electronics
parts stores of these exotic foreign places, and lets you experience
the life of an expatriate geek. If you are looking for restaurant or
hotel recommendations, look elsewhere. But if you need to know where
to get an RF choke re-wound in Santo Domingo, SolderSmoke is the book
for you.
http://soldersmoke.com/book.htm