Showing posts with label Jean Shepherd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jean Shepherd. Show all posts
Thursday, July 4, 2024

Electronic Toys and Their Influence on Us

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Mike WU2D recently put out this interesting video.  I vaguely remember the springs on the Radio Shack kits -- I also remember (bitterly) not...
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Monday, April 8, 2024

Woebot -- An AI-Based Therapy Bot for Us?

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  This was on 60 Minutes last night.  Of course it made me think of our many "Tales of Woe."  Perhaps this could be of use to us. ...
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Monday, March 18, 2024

Listen to me talking to Jean Shepherd in 1976. I was 18 years-old.

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Wow, here is a blast from the past.  I recently read a good article about Shepherd by A. David Wunsch in the Spring 2022 issue of the AWA Jo...
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Monday, February 19, 2024

Jean Shepherd has Trouble with his Heising Modulator (and his date)

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This is probably Jean Shepherd's best program about homebrew ham radio.  It is about how we can become obsessed with the problems that a...
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Radio's Noble Savage: Jean Shepherd and The Secret People (that's us) -- Shep and Kludge?

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I was looking at the pictures from the Nearfest hamfest when I spotted this quite from Shepherd at the bottom of a post in the AM Window by ...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

A True Measure of a Jean Shepherd Fan: Did You Fly One of His Ornithopters?

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  I did.  Shep had as a sponsor the maker of a flying bird.  It was a wind-up ornithopter powered by a rubber band.  It was kind of like the...
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

SolderSmoke Re-Play: Shep tries to build a Heising Modulator -- Shep on Parasitics and Troubleshooting: "That way madness lies"

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You guys really have to listen to this.  This is culturally important.    In this 1965 radio broadcast, Jean Shepherd describes his teenage ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Who was Jean Shepherd?

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Find out in this 16 minute preview video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83rIeZVqdcs  EXCELSIOR!
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Tuesday, December 27, 2022

WATCH Jean Shepherd in 1982 (with Letterman)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3naRDmT3QGA 
Tuesday, October 11, 2022

SolderSmoke FOREVER! Archived in the WayBack Machine

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  There were recently some stories about an effort to put on the Internet Archive recordings and other material from the history of ham radi...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

Software, Hardware, and Rockets -- T-Zero Systems (videos)

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There is a lot of really cool stuff in these videos.  I am a hardware guy, devoted to HARDWARE Defined Radios.  But these videos are a remin...
Friday, July 15, 2022

Jean Shepherd and Studs Terkel Talk About Radio on "The Big Broadcast" Sunday night 7pm-11pm

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  I'm home recovering from the second COVID vaccine booster (I feel OK, just a bit tired).  Our local public broadcast station, WAMU, an...
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Sunday, June 19, 2022

A Great Book on Oscillators (Analog LC Oscillators) by John F. Rider (Free!)

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  Thanks to Peter Parker VK3YE for alerting us to this wonderful 1940 book.  John F. Rider -- a real hero of electronic literature -- does ...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Sticker Shock -- WYKSYCDS Stickers Spotted in NYC and in a Netherlands Pub! Awards!

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  I am awarding the coveted Brass Figlagee with Bronze Oak Leaf Palm to Dave W2DAB, to Lex PH2LB, to Jesse N5JHH, and of course to Pete Juli...
Saturday, May 7, 2022

SolderSmoke Podcast #237 is available: TV Show! No! W9YEI's 1939 TV. 1712 Rig. HQ-100. New SDR Rig and Book. JF3HZB's VFO Digital Dial. FIELD DAY! PSSST. MAILBAG

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SolderSmoke podcast #237 is available:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke237.mp3 Travelogue -- New York City!  Stickers! And about that tri...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Conclusions About W9YEI's Early (1940?) Homebrew Television Receiver

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It may have looked something like this.  Recent build of the Scozarri receiver by Jack Neitz Joh DL6ID and I have been exchanging e-mails in...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Young Jean Shepherd Gets Hung-Up On Ham Radio

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Oh man, we've all been there:  OBSESSION with ham radio.  Shep went over the top and didn't sleep all weekend when his homebrew tran...
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Friday, April 15, 2022

TV Homebrew 84 years ago -- Tracking Down W9YEI's 1939 Television Receiver -- The CRT He Probably Used -- Please Help Find More Info

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From October 1938 QST "Building Television Receivers with Standard Cathode Ray Tubes"  by J. B. Sherman  A recent Hack-A-Day artic...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

W9YEI's Homebrew 1939 TV?

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  I've been thinking about Jean Shepherd's 1973 description of the homebrew TV receiver built by his friend Johnny Anderson W9YEI in...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

John Stanley Anderson W9YEI -- Shep's Friend Who Homebrewed a TV Receiver in 1938

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  John Stanley "Johnny" Anderson -- son of John E. and Beda Klarin Anderson, natives of Sweden -- was born on July 19, 1918, in Ea...