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It is always good to be reminded that someone out there is listening and reading,  especially when it is nice folks like Hamilton and his fa...

  It was nice to watch a video from Andreas again.  And to be reminded of the presence in geostationary orbit of QO-100.  Really sad that we...

Above is a pretty good video by Retro Rockets.  Some will quibble about the technical details presented, especially about early radio, but I...

  I was out with Guapo the dog at 5:28 am EST on November 12, 2024.  I looked up and first saw one satellite moving from South to North.  Th...

" Three years earlier, Lovelock had listened on his homemade shortwave radio in Finchley to the 'beep, beep, beep' transmission...

He was, of course, right about the impact of satellites, but he was the inventor of the geo-stationary concept.  I wonder how he would react...

This is a really OLD video, but there is a lot of great material here:  -- Tubes.  (Valves or Thermatrons) -- Coax.   -- Frequency Division ...

That's me at the operating position.   Window looks out to the terrace and to the ocean to the East, the  Mona channel.  The shack is on...

Pretty amazing, I think.  They have 6,000 of them up there now, and more to come.  They burn in every five years so there is a constant oppo...

One commenter questioned why we went with the more expensive Starlink system.  The simple answer is that it is just better, faster, and more...

We are in the Dominican Republic for a little while. Yesterday we got Starlink working.   The picture show me holding the cell phone heraldi...

Chinese Radio Licenses and Operating Certificates David Cowhig (aka WA1LBP,  aka Gao Da Wei) was Hambassdor for 73 Magazine on Okinawa when ...

November 24, 2023 Hello Bill I have just built an tested a 20 meter “Sputnik” transmitter. It uses two Soviet era “rod” tubes and is fixed t...

  https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230815-the-ancient-tech-keeping-space-missions-alive Three cheers for software.  Really. 

  Wow, here's another piece of tech news from a place in which I have some experience.  Yesterday I posted about the Telekino developed ...

In our talks at the local high school we have frequently mentioned Ashhar Farhan, his Cubesat experience, and his use of a direct conversion...

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

  15 March 2009  Beware the Ides of March! Ostia Beach and Ostia Antica 248 Knights of QRSS. And Wizards! ET Phones Home (with QRSS?) Pos...

The International Geophysical Year (1958-1959) was a very scientifically productive period.  It is really amazing how much we learned from t...