Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Beautiful Pictures of Mars from India's Spacecraft

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Congratulations to the Indian Space Research Organization.  They put a spacecraft into Mars orbit on their first attempt, and they are ge...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Don't miss Thomas and his Minima at Pacificon!

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Thanks for the kind words Thomas.  Be sure to have someone do a video of your presentation. You truly have The Knack -- proof of this i...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

Let's Build Something! (Video) Part 1

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Friday, September 26, 2014

Radio China International Echo Mystery SOLVED!

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For the past month or so I have been wondering about a strange echo that I've been hearing on the 31 meter transmissions of Radio Chin...
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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Making Hardware for Mars in a Lab in New York City

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I liked this video about building hardware for a Mars mission at a lab in New York City. http://www.sciencefriday.com/video/08/10/2012/bu...

The Amazing Apollo Board from Carbon Origins

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Wow, lots of possibilities here.... Our book: "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" http://soldersmoke.co...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Arduino Makes Music with Old Floppy Drives

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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

A Beautiful BITX20 from PA1ED

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Edwin did a beautiful job on his BITX.  This is an excellent example of stage-by-stage construction.  This is his THIRD BITX.  On the sec...
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Monday, September 22, 2014

The SWLing Post, Ears To Our World, and the HumanaLight

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Thomas, K4SWL, has a really impressive shortwave listening blog .  Yesterday he was kind enough to post an article about my latest obsessi...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

Inducted Into Shortwave Rogues' Gallery

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Jeff Murray, K1NSS, has done me the honor of placing me in his VERY ELITE Friends of Shortwave "Rogue's Gallery."  Check it...

"First Smoke" from Antananarivo, Madagascar

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Here in Northern Virginia, it is not all that unusual to run into friends and have them say things like, "We're moving to Antana...
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Saturday, September 20, 2014

Kiwi Lunchbox Sideband: The Tucker Tin Two

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Pete Eaton sent us links to an old article from the New Zealand magazine "Break-In."   So many good, simple rigs come to us from...
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