Friday, November 30, 2018

Totally Absurd -- Farhan Being Questioned in a Police Station

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I walked into the shack this morning hoping to read good news about the InSight landing and the impending launch of Farhan's satell...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Bad Weather Postpones Falcon 9 Rocket Launch

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March 30 2018 Falcon 9 Launch from Vandenberg AFB https://lompocrecord.com/news/local/spacex-launch-from-vandenberg-air-force-base-po...
Sunday, November 25, 2018

Falcon 9 Cubesat Launch Now Set for Wednesday

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It looks like the Falcon 9 with Farhan's CubeSat is not scheduled to launch this Wednesday between 1030 and 1100 West Coast time.  Abo...
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Saturday, November 24, 2018

Where in Space is Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster? -- Interactive Animation

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Fun stuff from Heavens Above.  What a great web site!  https://www.heavens-above.com/Tesla.aspx
Friday, November 23, 2018

The Max Valier Satellite Flies Over, Sending CW

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I understand the launch of Farhan's CubeSat has been delayed a few days.  That's the way it works in the rocket launch biz --patie...
Saturday, November 17, 2018

From BITX to SpaceX: Falcon 9 To Launch Farhan's Cubesat on Monday (video)

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https://www.rocketlaunch.live/launch/spaceflight-sso-a-su will carry a live feed of the launch SpaceX will live-stream the launch...
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Friday, November 16, 2018

Launch Date Approaches for Farhan's Satellite

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It looks like the launch date might have been moved up from 24 November to 19 November. 
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Wednesday, November 14, 2018

W7ZOI: Direct Conversion Receivers -- Some Amateur Radio History

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http://w7zoi.net/dcrx68.pdf Farhan and Pete WB9FLW alerted me to this wonderful article by Wes Hayward, W7ZOI.  I guess my interest in ...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2018

1972 Solar Flare Caused Naval Mines to Explode

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There are reports out this morning that a big solar flare in 1972 caused naval mines placed by the U.S. off the coast of Vietnam to explode....
Monday, November 12, 2018

Getting Ready for Farhan's Satellite (videos)

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I've been getting ready for the November 24 launch of the CubeSat that Farhan and his friends in India built .  I started out with my ...
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Monday, November 5, 2018

Pete N6QW Rejuvenates the Atlas Twins with an Arduino and an Si5351

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Pete Juliano N6QW has turned his attention to the Atlas Twins, a nice single conversion multiband rig. Pete has used an Arduino/Si5351 to ...
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Saturday, November 3, 2018

Oliver Heaviside

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In the last SolderSmoke podcast we took a look at some of the giants of radio.   Here is one fellow we missed:  Oliver Heaviside.   Hack...
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