Cool Stuff
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.) [...]
When I was going through some files on my USB thumbdrive, I found a panorama of Hoover Dam that I made from some photos that I took on our honeymoon last August. There are some small blemishes in the rendering (some of the power lines have discontinuities and what not), but overall the results still [...]
I'm very pleased to report the first (to my knowledge) completed Willamette transceiver which was born in Europe. Vincenzo, IZ5GVP sent along to me a couple of photos of his very nicely constructed Willamette. He reports that it works well and that he's considering modifying it to operate on the 30 meter band. Three cheers [...]
I realize that this has very little to do with my normal blog content, but I hope that you will indulge me for a moment and check out this post. As many of you probably know, I work 3rd shift, which can get pretty lonely at times. In order to keep myself from going insane [...]
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I just updated the shack PC to Ubuntu Karmic beta and I'm impressed. Nothing earth-shattering, but lots more polish compared to Jaunty, and seems quite a bit snappier. I think it's worth the upgrade if you're already an Ubuntu user. If you are not, then download the ISO and try it in live CD mode. [...]
OK, I admit that I don't care for a lot of these goofy Internet neologisms like "blogiversary", but I needed something to get your attention for a boring post like this. I don't normally pay attention to these things, but I happened to notice during my last post that my first posting to this blog [...]
I used to really like Make Magazine when it first launched, but lately they have been drifting off into areas that seem a bit thinly stretched to be labeled "Maker" activity. However, I'm happy to report that I got a pleasant surprise from Make in my feed reader this morning: a blog post about Dayton [...]
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!)
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 [...]
