Just go to http://soldersmoke.com. On that archive page, just click on the blue hyperlinks and your audio player should play that episode.
http://soldersmoke.com
This is for CW fans, or for those wishing to improve their CW skills. You can now listen to the entire H.G. Wells book in CW, thanks to Chuck Adams, AA7FO.
This seems very timely becasue my son and I are watching the NETFLIX version of "The Three Body Problem" by Cixin Liu. This deals with an entirely different war of the worlds.
Check out Chuck's CW version of the book. Thanks Chuck!
A view of McMath Region 11976 from the Paris Observatory early on 4 August 1972.
I have a vivid memory of seeing -- as a kid -- Aurora from our home near New York City. Eric Carlsen, my childhood friend and colleague from the Waters Edge Rocket Research Society, told me his mom had similar memories. A while back I did some Googling and concluded that it had to have been the monster solar flare of August 1972:
That blog post got about eight comments, mostly from other folks with similar memories -- they apparently were led to my blog by the same kind of memory-based Googling that I had done.
One of the short stories in the anthology is entitled "Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming." Wow, I thought, that one is really promises to be very interesting for a radio amateur. I turned out that it was more interesting than I expected.
I won't spoil the story for you. Suffice it to say that Cixin Liu makes reference to the same August 1972 solar flare that I remember from my childhood, and discusses its effect on radio propagation. It was really kind of eerie to be in that plane, flying over the Bahamas, reading Chi-Fi on my I-phone, and seeing the author reference that memorable event from 1972. TRGHS.
Here is an excellent article describing what happened back in 1972: https://room.eu.com/article/lessons-from-the-sun. The August 1972 flare was so strong that it caused U.S. Navy anti-ship mines to explode in Haiphong harbor in Vietnam.
SolderSmoke Podcast #202 is available: http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke202.mp3 13 Jan 2018 Opening music from Shel Silverstein and Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show.
On the Cover of the Rolling Stone or On the Cover of SPRAT magazine.
Travelogue and Weather Report
-- Bill's trip to the Dominican Republic. SWL on the beach. Return to the ice box.
-- Dramatic events in California.
-- Reading Chinese Sci Fi with lots of radio in it. "The Three Body Problem" by Cixin Liu
Straight Key Night. IN QRP MODE THANK YOU. With nephew Jeffrey. Annual event -- worked Jim W1PID friend of Mike Rainey.
Steve Murphy and Jeff Damm on QSO Today. FB.
Oh your rig is homebrew? "It must be propagation."
ER Reading about G3UUR
Hams avoiding 60 meters due to 100 watt limit. SAD.
Bill's Bench: Continuing series on the Ceramic Discrete DC receiver. Described the oscillator and the AF amp. Next we will do the Mixer. The most interesting stage. Nephew John Henry and niece Helena visiting today.
"SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" is now available as an e-book for Amazon's Kindle.
Here's the site:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004V9FIVW
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