If there was a more stressful time of my life (at least that I voluntarily put myself into) than the last few days, I would be hard pressed to remember it. Negotiaions on the new house have been very tense, and by yesterday I honestly thought we were going to have to walk away from [...]
This weekend, two of the first wave of Willamette builders posted some photos of their completed rigs to the qrp-l.org mailing list. I present to you some of these great pictures with the permission of the builders. First up is the excellent work of Chris Howard, W0EP. Chris placed his finshed rig in a very [...]
A few different things have conspired to bring me back around to finish up the documentation for the Willamette, as well as forcing me to re-examine a few elements of the rig design. One of those things was an e-mail from AA0ZZ (really cool to hear from the designer of the PIC-EL and the IQPro) [...]
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Check this out, if you are interested in launching your own CubeSat into orbit, look no further than this kit: The 10x10x10cm, 1kg CubeSat standard has evolved to become the basis for one of the most widely accepted families of nanosatellite designs. Originally proposed by Professor Bob Twiggs at Stanford University, it and its companion [...]
I got my September QST in the mail last week and when I was doing my preliminary flip through the pages, an article caught my eye. Featured on the pages were quite a few screen shots of an application running on the very distinctive Ubuntu Human theme. It turns out that the article is about [...]
I use Google Reader to keep track off many of the websites and blogs that I'm interested in, especially the ham radio and QRP blogs. I've noticed that QRSS seems to be popping up quite a bit in the QRP zeitgeist lately. I suspect that Bill at SolderSmoke has been the catalyst for much of this.
Completely by accident, I happened to stumble upon a program that gives you an easy way to learn DSP techniques by focusing on the underlying algorithms and not the hardware details. The program is called BasicDSP and is available as a Linux source tarball or Windows executable. BasicDSP was created by PA3FWM and PE1OIT as [...]
Pardon me while I take a moment to direct your attention to the website of KC5WA, who has been simultaneously working on builds of both my Tualatin and Willamette transceivers. RC does an excellent and really thorough job in documenting his work on his projects, and his web pages are a great resource for those [...]
