Showing posts with label Television. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Television. Show all posts
Monday, August 4, 2025

ElectroBOOM! CuriousMarc Tries (and fails) to fix an old HP182C Oscilloscope -- Words of Wisdom for all Homebrewers

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"You try your best to improve something that already almost works... and then you ZAP it entirely in the process.  This is the worst fe...
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Sunday, August 3, 2025

Paul K9ARF -- SolderSmoke and a Knack Story

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Bill: Having been an occasional Solder-Smoke listener, I recently purchased your book "Solder Smoke Adventures" to read during vac...
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Friday, July 18, 2025

Britain's EF-50 Valve (Tube, Thermatron) in WWII

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Thanks to Rogier PA1ZZ for sending us this. 
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Saturday, May 17, 2025

MIT's Haystack Observatory and Dr. Herb Weiss

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We are really privileged to have among us ( and in the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Hall of Fame) Phil Erickson W1PJE.   Phil is the Direc...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2023

CuriousMarc Powers up (and Explains) Old Cathode Ray Tubes

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Wow, really cool video from CuriousMarc and the guy who wrote the "Open Circuits" book.  But fellows, you really need to be more c...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

Watch Mr. Wizard! 1952 Program on Electromagnetism. And more! (video)

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Wow.  This is a very thought provoking program.  It is kind of like "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood," but with science. The lessons ...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022

The Story of Television (Sarnoff's Version) -- 1956 Film

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Of course, this has to be taken with a huge grain of salt.  "General" Sarnoff sits there and claims that Vladimir Zworkyin "i...