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Hello Bill, I think you will like a new tech history book about Bell Labs. The name of the book is The Idea Factory  and the author...

My wife and I watched this on PBS last night.  Really interesting. You guys will like it.  There's Elon Musk and his car named for Nik...

Very cool to have world famous rocker and fellow boatanchor enthusiast Joe Walsh singing about the virtues of analog. What next? An ode...

Brian, G0NSL, alerted us to this very interesting archive on Marconi:  http://markpadfield.com/marconicalling/museum/html/archivehome.h...

I mentioned on the podcast that a generous friend sent me a Tektronix 465 scope. It now seems like every day I'm discovering new and i...

We have one of these (I'm sure many of you guys have one also).  I'm not really a computer guy, but I've been holding onto th...

I was out on the national mall yesterday morning to watch the Shuttle Discovery (atop a 747) fly over Washington DC en route to Dulles Airpo...

From the fellows at NJQRP: This week's session of Chat With The Designers is tomorrow evening(Tuesday), starting at 8pm Eastern (0000z) ...

Conditions on 17 meters are bad today. I pulled out my 6 inch reflector telescope to do some troubleshooting on ol' sol. Yea, just as ...

I loved this episode , and I think most of you guys will too. I was alerted to it by an article by famed comet hunter David Levy. Wow! I ...

I really liked this interview with our friend Alan. You can see definite signs of an early case of The Knack here: I was especially impr...

Yi Yao alerted us to this. Don't miss this one! Our book: "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" http://s...