Jason Milldrum on February 24th, 2009

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. —H. L. Mencken

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Jason Milldrum on February 16th, 2009

A few photos from our trip to Cannon Beach this weekend. The subject of most of my photos was Haystack Rock. (BTW, Jennifer and I are now engaged!)

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Jason Milldrum on February 11th, 2009

Dave W8NF has been kind enough to post a short video demonstrating the effect that RF clipping has on a SSB transmission. You can see that peak voltage isn't affected, but that the power density of the output waveform is increased as the amount of RF clipping is increased. The trade-off is in the sound [...]

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Jason Milldrum on February 7th, 2009

Hey, I just saw the incoming link from Blazer's Edge. Hello all you Blazers fans! I don't post much other than my ham radio geekery here, but I am a longtime Oregonian and Blazers fan. I had the pleasure of chatting with Ben via Twitter, and got him hooked on my other, much nerdier pastime. [...]

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Jason Milldrum on February 2nd, 2009

Last week, I was informed that everyone in our company would be receiving a temporary (but indefinite) 10% reduction in pay. To make matters worse, it looks like we will be taking more mandatory shutdown days in the current quarter; we've got five coming up over the next few months. This is also another open-ended [...]

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Jason Milldrum on February 1st, 2009

Being such a long time since our last breakfast get-together, W8NF and I decided it was time for another gathering of the Portland Eggs & Coffee. The call went out far and wide, via the pQRP reflector and the ARRL Oregon section website. This time we had a great turnout, a total of seven participants: [...]

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