Showing posts with label satellites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label satellites. Show all posts
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Oscar 7... and Oscar 11 (aka UoSat-2)? Did Oscar 11 do much the same thing as Oscar 7?

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Above is a pretty good video by Retro Rockets.  Some will quibble about the technical details presented, especially about early radio, but I...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Two Satellites Spotted Pre-Dawn

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  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...
Thursday, September 5, 2024

Who can tell us more about Lovelock's homebrew shortwave radio?

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" Three years earlier, Lovelock had listened on his homemade shortwave radio in Finchley to the 'beep, beep, beep' transmission...
Friday, August 23, 2024

Arthur C. Clarke Talks about Satellites, SETI, Remote Work, and Wrist Radios (1976 Video)

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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...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

"The Far Sound" -- Bell System Video from 1961 -- Good Radio History (video)

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This is a really OLD video, but there is a lot of great material here:  -- Tubes.  (Valves or Thermatrons) -- Coax.   -- Frequency Division ...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Some Pictures of SolderSmoke Shack South

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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...
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Thursday, June 20, 2024

The Starlink Constellation

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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...
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Monday, June 17, 2024

1,280 Antennas at 12 GHz -- How Starlink Works

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One commenter questioned why we went with the more expensive Starlink system.  The simple answer is that it is just better, faster, and more...
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Friday, June 14, 2024

Greetings from Low Earth Orbit

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We are in the Dominican Republic for a little while. Yesterday we got Starlink working.   The picture show me holding the cell phone heraldi...
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Monday, May 27, 2024

Ham Radio in China -- Interesting info from 高大伟 David Cowhig

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Chinese Radio Licenses and Operating Certificates David Cowhig (aka WA1LBP,  aka Gao Da Wei) was Hambassdor for 73 Magazine on Okinawa when ...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

AA9IL's Sputnik Tube, Altoids Tin Transmitter

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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...
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Saturday, August 19, 2023

More Ancient Technology Keeping Space Missions Alive

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  https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230815-the-ancient-tech-keeping-space-missions-alive Three cheers for software.  Really. 
Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Quetzal-1 -- The Guatemalan CubeSat

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  Wow, here's another piece of tech news from a place in which I have some experience.  Yesterday I posted about the Telekino developed ...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Farhan Speaks to Students about Satellites and Direct Conversion Homebrew Receivers (audio)

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In our talks at the local high school we have frequently mentioned Ashhar Farhan, his Cubesat experience, and his use of a direct conversion...
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, September 15, 2022

SolderSmoke (Old Smoke) Podcast #103 -- March 15, 2009 -- From Rome -- QRSS, Knights and Wizards, LTSpice, and an Echolink QSO with Jeff KO7M (the guy with the Piper Cub)

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  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...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

IGY! Science and the Vanguard Satellite in 1959 (video)

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The International Geophysical Year (1958-1959) was a very scientifically productive period.  It is really amazing how much we learned from t...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

A Surprisingly Good Movie from the Late 1960s: "The Ham's Wide World" (Video)

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I found this movie to be surprisingly good.  Narrated by Arthur Godfrey, it features Barry Goldwater, and a lot of other hams.  There is a h...
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Monday, June 27, 2022

Thoughts on Homebrew, Makers, DIY, and Hams -- from Lex PH2LB

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Sometimes we get a comment that is so good that we elevate it to the main blog page.  That was the case with Lex PH2LB's comment on the ...
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Saturday, April 9, 2022

WD-40, a Hard Drive, a Coat-Hanger Antenna, Dumpster Diving, and Amateur Radio Satellites from the Azores

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  Last month I was talking to Ira VP2EIH on my new 1712 SSB rig.  Ira is interested in satellites.  Talking to him caused me to dig up some ...
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