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SolderSmoke Podcast #208 is available: http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke208.mp3 15 December 2018 Pete and the California fires Bill goes to Brooklyn 2 meter simplex A return of the trivial electric motor Audio from Mars HF Conditions -- a real mixed bag Pete looks back at 2018 -- The Year of the SSB Transceiver -- Lessons Learned Hans Summers, the QSX and the virtues of SDR W7ZOI's DC Receiver Retrospective The 1972 Solar Flare and the Vietnam War SHAMELESS COMMERCE: Buy your gifts through the Amazon link to the upper right. Consider SolderSmoke the book as a gift. Visit Pasta Pete's for cooking ideas. Don't Build It! Sage -- but unexpected -- advice from Pete. Straight Key Night approaches. Book Reviews: --"What is Real?" (Quantum Physics) -- RHdb by K6LHA. Movies "Bohemian Rhapsody" "First Man" (Not yet!) MAILBAG: Steve G0FUW Ed KC8SBV
I feel a moral obligation to put these projects on the blog every time I see one. It just seems like the right thing to do. Great work on the Pilotron. Great workshop video also.
I agree completely with the e-mojis. Wow! Cool! I love it! Hans Summers is a genius. This is almost enough to make me get with the program and embrace SDR. Hans has done what seemed to have been impossible: true homebrew with SDR.
How long will it be before NASA starts getting critical comments on the audio quality, along with very confident statements about how to change the audio settings on the menu? Well, at least they have "presence." The Elser Mathes Cup awaits a winner!
Today's SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of Farhan's Exseed Satellite was really spectacular. Congratulations Farhan! Really inspirational stuff. Now we wait to hear the bird. If I have loaded the orbital information correctly, I should have my first chance this evening. I have my antenna positioned.
"SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" is now available as an e-book for Amazon's Kindle.
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