Showing posts with label Chile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chile. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

A Flight from Chile to Panama: Aeronautical Mobile Contact with KX4WC/AM, with VK3MO in the Group

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WA3O sent me an e-mail alerting me to the fact that Mike KX4WC/Aeronautical Mobile would be flying up from Santiago, Chile to Panama City th...
Monday, June 23, 2025

First Images from the Vera Rubin Observatory (in Chile) Were Posted Today

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Click above for a MUCH better image From the IEEE Spectrum article:  Every night, the telescope will take a thousand images, one every 34 se...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

Building Nixie Tubes for a Hiroshima Project

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Thanks to Bob Scott KD4EBM for alerting me to this wonderful video.  It seems especially timely, given the recent release of the Oppenheimer...
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Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Working Indonesia and Chile with new 15-10 Homebrew Transceiver

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Conditions were good this morning, and the Radio Gods continue to favor homebrew rigs.  I got on 15 meters SSB with the new 15-10 dual bande...
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Monday, February 10, 2020

Volcano Light in Chile

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This popped up on Twitter today.  It is from 2018 -- the Villarrica volcano in Chile.   Interesting shot. The label said it was taken d...
Saturday, August 25, 2018

Big New Telescopes

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https://qz.com/1362650/the-latest-in-a-new-generation-of-giant-telescopes-broke-ground/
Thursday, May 19, 2016

XQ6FOD -- A GREAT Knack Story from Chile

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Greg VK1VXG sent me this link.  I had a blog entry on this a few years ago, but I didn't do it justice.  This is a truly amazing and ...
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Saturday, March 24, 2012

The Giant Magellan Telescope

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Wow, seven 28 foot mirrors! They just started blasting away the top of a mountain in Chile to make room for this magnificent 'scope. M...