Showing posts with label Silverman -- Steve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Silverman -- Steve. Show all posts
Saturday, February 24, 2024

More on "Kludge" -- Merriam-Webster's Pronunciation Guide

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 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kludge What say our British cousins?  How do you pronounce the word?  Kluge as in huge?  Kludge ...
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Monday, June 19, 2023

CuriousMarc Repairs an old DISCRETE COMPONENT HP Frequency Counter

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I really liked this repair video from CuriousMarc (aka AJ6JV).  This counter pre-dates the use of integrated circuits -- it is all discrete ...
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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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Friday, March 3, 2023

My HP8640B Signal Generator Lives Again

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I'd really come to like this old signal generator.  The construction is superb.  It was built to be repaired.  As you open it up you fin...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Is this the Origin of the Term "Ham" Radio?

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Click on the image for a better view The timing (1895) and the context (railroad telegraphy) seem about right.  But other etymologies are ou...
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Saturday, June 11, 2022

Putting the "Mate for the Mighty Midget" Back to Work -- With a DX-100 on 40 Meter AM

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After working on it for a while I got so fond of my old Hammarlund HQ-100 that I moved it from the AM/Boatanchors operating position over to...
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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Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Dean KK4DAS Builds an EI9GQ 16 Watt RF Amplifier (and Noodles in the Process)

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  I really like Dean's description of the building process, especially where he describes the need to sit down with paper and pencil for...
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Thursday, September 10, 2020

The Agony of Troubleshooting -- From China

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  I am troubleshooting my beloved NYC HP8640B Signal Generator (thanks to Steve Silverman and Dave Bamford).  Some of you may wonder why I d...
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Saturday, February 29, 2020

How to Measure Output Impedance (video)

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Thanks to Tony Fishpool G4WIF for alerting us to this very useful video by Alan Wolke W2AEW.  Alan's video channel is a real treasu...
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Sunday, May 26, 2019

DIY Waterfall -- A Quick and Easy Panadaptor Using a Sig Gen and O'scope (video)

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I've been getting waterfall envy.  The panoramic frequency display is the one thing that could lure me to the dark side (SDR).   He...
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