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In SolderSmoke 117:
24 October 2009
Climbing Monte Calvo + Horseback riding + Piggy-backs = LOWER BACK PAIN
Visit of Bob, W8SX, Soldersmoke correspondent in Dayton
AA1TJ's point contact adventures -- Backwaves and Backwash
AF Collins on Kindle -- "William" Marconi
Hans Summers and Turkish Piracy
RSGB Convention via Skype
"Air and Space" Aurora Article
My new, old Pentium III with Ubuntu (Thanks Jorge!)
Roadkill computing
CQ interviews Joe Taylor, K1JT
New Spart and new Sprat CD
AA1TJ's voice-powered transmitter (and some advice from Italy)
QSOs from Ponticelli: DK1HW/P (SOTA) and UN9GD.
SOLDERSMOKE THE BOOK -- WEEKEND SALE!
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Perplexity AI calculating Zo of a two wire transmission line – comparison
with measurement – updated
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During the process of writing the article Analysis of output matching of a
certain 25W 144MHz PA an estimate was made of the characteristic impedance
Zo of...
6 hours ago
Fldigi is great; use it all the time on my EVO410c
ReplyDeleteBTW, I gave a conference presentation recently at a musicology congress. My presentation was on post-tonal elements in Revueltas's music. Used the Ubuntu equivalent of PowerPoint. Anyway, the screensaver switched on during my chat and lo and behold, the "circuits screensaver" was projected on the 2x3m screen...Afterwards people asked me "¿Qué eran esas figuras? ¿Te gusta la electrónica? Ah...such fun.
ReplyDeleteHey, one more! If James A. Michener (who passed on in 1997) recommends the book, then, after I read it, I'd be glad to review it...after all, I am Robert(o) Barnard...(the obscure composer), namesake of the the British mystery book writer (definitely not obscure) 73 again great show as usual and the Rainey VOX xmtr is very FB...
ReplyDeleteHey Bill, I think "roadkill computing" has been already been known as "Frankenputing" and/or "Frankensteining" for a while. See the Frankenputer entry in The New Hacker's Dictionary, a.k.a. The Jargon File.
ReplyDeleteRats! I keep forgetting to include my call.
ReplyDelete73 de N3JIM, Jim Vanderveen
Bill, welcome to the world of Ubuntu and fldigi! I've been using Ubuntu on my shack PC for two years now and haven't looked back. Now that you've been hooked on fldigi, take a look at the PSKReporter spotting option, I suspect you will like it.
ReplyDeletePSKReporter in fldigi
PSKReporter Map
73 de Jason NT7S