Showing posts with label New York City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York City. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

ANOTHER Great Workshop

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As I get ready to build the SolderSmoke Shack South, the Radio Gods (well at least YouTube) keep sending me these workshop videos.  Today...
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Thursday, January 25, 2024

RIP Arno Penzias -- Co-discoverer of the Big Bang Cosmic Background Radiaton

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  Penzias on the right Here it the Penzias Obituary: https://www.npr.org/2024/01/24/1226572843/arno-penzias-obituary-big-bang-theory I think...
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Sticker Spotted Near the Old NYC Home of E. Howard Armstrong

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  Thanks Dave! 
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...
Friday, May 20, 2022

500 WYKSYCDS IBEW Stickers Arrive in Europe! Order yours today! Free!

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Lex PH2LB in the Netherlands has gone the extra kilometer for the IBEW.  When he saw the stickers that had been placed in New York City, he ...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Electronics Manufacturing in New York City -- Limor Fried and Adafruit (video) -- "TRUST YOUR TECHNOLUST"

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The Radio Gods seem to be directing my attention to my hometown: New York City. I was recently in the city, observing the placement of vario...
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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, August 25, 2021

Video: E. Howard Armstrong and Early Radio

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This is a really wonderful video. It might seem slow to those accustomed to faster-paced YouTube videos, but the information content is very...
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Friday, June 18, 2021

Jean Shepherd on CW, and Strange Propagation -- QRP!

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From 1965.  Great CW stories from Shep.  QRP!  Shep running 2 watts on 20 CW, working DX.  He discusses shortwave listening,  and predicted ...
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Saturday, June 5, 2021

The Perpetual Troubleshooter -- John F. Rider -- W2RID

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Rider
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

The Joy of Fixing Broken Things (a really amazing video)

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This amazing 10 minute video captures very well the joy of fixing broken things.  It comes to us through a recommendation from Paul VK3HN in...
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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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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

NYC's Radio Row Survives (sort of) in the Bronx

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Thanks to our friend (and official lexicographer) Steve Silverman KB3SII for alerting us to this important bit of radio news from the Big ...
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Tuesday, June 6, 2017

The Philmore Fixed Crystal Detector

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I was at the Manassas, Virginia hamfest on Sunday.  An old timer had a box of crystals for sale.  It was obviously the kind of "box ...
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Thursday, October 27, 2016

I.G.Y., The Nightfly, Donald Fagen, Jean Shepherd and SolderSmoke

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OK, so from time-to-time we  talk about IGY, the International Geophysical Year. I was born during that scientifically momentous period. ...
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Monday, March 7, 2016

Adafruit Profiled in "The New Yorker"

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Congratulations to Limor Fried.  Her company got a very nice write up in "The New Yorker." http://www.newyorker.com/tech/el...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Radio Row, New York City, 1929

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Check out this video: https://vimeo.com/109197452 and more here: http://www.radiodiaries.org/radio-row/
Sunday, November 15, 2015

And Now for Something Completely Different: Boatanchors! AM! Top Band!

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Lately  I found myself looking for something different to get involved in.  Pete's conversion of his Ten-Tec commercial rig got me t...
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Monday, October 5, 2015

AK2B's Beautiful Si5351 Receiver -- Just Listen and Watch!

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Tom Hall does amazing things with solder and electrons in the heart of New York City.  I give him extra credit for doing this on the islan...
Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Interview with Paul Horowitz (W1HFA) -- A Giant In Radio Electronics (Video)

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I've been hearing about this book for years, but until I watched this interview, I knew nothing about the author.  Thanks Lady Ada.  (...
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