Cool Stuff
I've got another grab-bag of miscellaneous news for this post, but I'm going to lead off with the big one: I'm going to be a presenter at the world's preeminent QRP convention: Four Days In May 2012. The tentative topic for my presentation will be about the free and open source tools that I use [...]
Update Here's a quote from Wes describing the equipment that he was using on his end: I hope that my signal was OK when we worked. I was in the midst of wrapping up a frequency synthesizer project and had it running on the rig for the first time. When I heard you [...]
Noah Milldrum Born August 2, 2010 9 lb 7 oz 21.5 in
I just heard on the Practical Amateur Radio Podcast that special event station K7G will be QRV this weekend from Astoria, Oregon to commemorate the 25th anniversary of The Goonies. Man, does this bring back some fond memories. The Goonies was one of those pop culture memes that really impacted me as a kid. Here [...]
Check out these incredible photos and videos of a coronal mass ejection taken by the newly commissioned Solar Dynamics Observatory. The clarity and resolution of the images are absolutely stunning. When the CME erupts, you can clearly see the spiraling of the magnetic field lines as they spring up out of the surface of the [...]
Over the last week or so, I've been coming home from work nearly every morning thinking about ways to tweak the Clackamas (FDIM 2010 QRP Challenge) rig. I'm sure that Jennifer is wondering if I have OCD at this point. This morning I was able to stamp out the last few bugs in project and [...]
Our favorite fashion hacker/ham, Diana Eng, KC2UHB, has posted a new article on the Make Magazine blog with instructions on how to build an End-Fed Half Wave antenna tuner and deploy it with an antenna. (BTW, did you see that she was recently named to the ARRL Public Relations Committee? An excellent choice the League.) [...]
