Showing posts with label California. Show all posts
Showing posts with label California. Show all posts
Monday, October 14, 2024

Monitoring Maritime Radio Messages with YADD

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  Click on the image for a clearer view This is really cool and very easy.  Easy nerd thrills.   On Friday, Steve VE7SL, put up a blog post...
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Friday, September 6, 2024

Ham Radio in the 1970s (and earlier, with some cool Jazz). What favorite rigs do you see?

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Rogier PA1ZZ sent me this today.  I think I may have seen pieces of it before, but this restoration  is really nice.  But ham radio seems to...
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Thursday, September 5, 2024

Who can tell us more about Lovelock's homebrew shortwave radio?

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" Three years earlier, Lovelock had listened on his homemade shortwave radio in Finchley to the 'beep, beep, beep' transmission...
Saturday, May 25, 2024

Pete Juliano's Amazing Videos -- 318 of Them!

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Blogs come and go, but (hopefully) YouTube is more permanent and accessible.  This morning I re-found Pete N6QW's YouTube channel.  When...
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Monday, May 29, 2023

Eric Schwartz WA6HHQ of Elecraft -- FDIM Interview #4 by Bob Crane W8SX (audio)

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  It was really cool that our correspondent at FDIM caught up with Eric Schwartz WA6HHQ of Elecraft.  Some highlights from the interview:  -...
Monday, May 1, 2023

Apex Surplus in Los Angeles

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The Polaroid camera for the Tek 'scope was pretty cool.  And the comments about the Simpson 260 made me feel good about finding one at a...
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Sunday, July 24, 2022

A Surprisingly Good Movie from the Late 1960s: "The Ham's Wide World" (Video)

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I found this movie to be surprisingly good.  Narrated by Arthur Godfrey, it features Barry Goldwater, and a lot of other hams.  There is a h...
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Friday, April 30, 2021

Trying to Repair Some Old Gear, He Got Hit with a Dose of LSD!

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Oh no, here's something else for us to worry about when working on old gear.  As if the treat of electrocution or radioactive poisoning ...
Monday, March 8, 2021

AA7EE Casually Kills a Direct Conversion Receiver, then Coldly Discards a Diode Ring Mixer

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I was really glad to see that Dave AA7EE has -- after a long absence -- posted another article on his blog.   The article has some great p...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021

The SolderSmoke Team Talks to the River City Amateur Radio Communication Society (Video)

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Pete and I had a great time speaking to this really nice California ham radio club (video of the event appears above).  Special thanks to cl...
Thursday, January 21, 2021

Another Poem about Radio: Radar Man

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  http://www.alphalpha.org/radar/poem/story.html Thanks to Allan WA9IRS for sharing this with us. 
Sunday, May 3, 2020

QSO Today -- Episode 300 -- Panel Discussion

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Congratulations to Eric Guth, 4Z1UG for reaching episode #300 on his QSO Today podcast.  To commemorate the event, Eric organized a pan...
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Friday, October 25, 2019

Radio Telescope Homebrewed from Cake Pans and Chicken Wire

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  https://altaonline.com/the-low-tech-search-for-signs-of-intelligent-life/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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Saturday, December 15, 2018

SolderSmoke Podcast #208

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SolderSmoke Podcast #208 is available:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke208.mp3 15 December 2018 Pete and the California fire...
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Monday, December 3, 2018

A Beautiful Launch! Watch the Video

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Today's SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of Farhan's Exseed Satellite was really spectacular. Congratulations Farhan!  Really inspirational ...
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Sunday, December 2, 2018

Launch Delay -- they will try again tomorrow

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https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/12/spacex-falcon-9-sso-multi-sat-launch/

Launch Day! Godspeed Exseed! 1:31 pm Eastern time. Video links here.

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Farhan posted this message and the above video to Facebook today (I have the video cued up to around the 5 minute point):  We are all se...
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Saturday, December 1, 2018

Cubesat Launch Now Scheduled for Sunday Morning (California time)

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Here is an update from the San Luis Obispo News:  https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/article222438135.html It kind of makes y...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Bad Weather Postpones Falcon 9 Rocket Launch

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March 30 2018 Falcon 9 Launch from Vandenberg AFB https://lompocrecord.com/news/local/spacex-launch-from-vandenberg-air-force-base-po...
Sunday, April 8, 2018

AMAZING 1999 Video on the Invention of the Transistor at "Hell's Bells Laboratory"

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Thanks to Armand WA1UQO for alerting me to this.  I really liked the book -- "Crystal Fire" -- that this 1999 video is loosely b...
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