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	Dongle a DIY Radio Telescope! Category: Technology A young friend recently spent a week learning about radio astronomy at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia. His experience prompted me to ask: How big a radio antenna would you need to observe anything interesting? It turns out the answer is a half meter across. For less than US$150 I built one that size, and it can easily detect the motions of the spiral arms of the Milky W...  READ MORE	UncleBrad 10/01/2019	Technology
	Yaesu Hybrid Net Category: Friends Jim, KV0X, has announced a new Yaesu Hybrid net.Day: SundayFreq: 14.316 MhzTime: 1900ZThis new net begins right after the Kenwood Hybrid net....  READ MORE	UncleBrad 09/15/2019	Friends
	AM Window Nets List Category: Resources (Provided by the AM Window Web site.  Cannot vouch for how often it is updated.)Nets are listed by day of the week, starting with those held daily....  READ MORE	UncleBrad 09/13/2019	Resources
	COBOL turns 60: Why it will outlive us all Category: Technology The credit for coming up with the basic idea goes not to Grace Hopper, although she contributed to the language and promoted it, but to Mary Hawes. She was a Burroughs Corporation programmer who saw a need for a computer language. In March 1959, Hawes proposed that a new computer language be created. It would have an English-like vocabulary that could be used across different comput...  READ MORE	UncleBrad 09/09/2019	Technology
	The Moon Tube: 1969 televisions Category: Friends What better to watch the Moon landing on than your brand-new 1969 television set?RCA, Magnavox and Zenith all debuted new TV lines that year, each with their own unique selling point. Televisions themselves were no longer novel by 1969 (not even colour ones), and so manufacturers were forced to develop new features that could potentially entice people to part with even more of their hard-earned ca...  READ MORE	UncleBrad 09/05/2019	Friends
	Sarnoff vs Farnsworth: The Battle for the Tube. Category: Technology Philo Farnsworth hadn’t had much of a choice. He needed money in order to pursue his invention, and that was the only offer on the table. Investing in television would seem like a no-brainer today, but at its birth it was considered an extremely risky investment – not only had inventors been chasing the dream (and spending money) for over two decades, but they still hadn’t adequa...  READ MORE	UncleBrad 09/05/2019	Technology
	Celebrating the CRT Category: Technology The Tube was everywhere, and its influence over western society would only continue to grow toward the end of the 20th century, as multiple-television households, computers and video-game consoles became increasingly more commonplace, until being fully replaced by LCD displays in the early 21st. I can’t imagine what the world would have been like without the Tube – or maybe I can....  READ MORE	UncleBrad 09/05/2019	Technology
	Technology that changed us: The 1970s Category: Technology In this 50-year retrospective, we're not just looking at technology year by year, we're looking at technologies that had an impact on us, paved the way for the future, and changed us, in ways good and bad....  READ MORE	UncleBrad 09/04/2019	Technology
	N8FQ Novice Rig Roundup Sked Page Category: Friends The GUI is a bit quirky, security-compromised and antiquated, but this site appears to support (along with SKCC) the Novice Rig Roundup.  You can arrange for skeds with online messaging.   To create  your profile, you have to log in (!).  Just make up a password and you're in....  READ MORE	UncleBrad 08/26/2019	Friends
	W6CAW Swan Page Category: Friends Former Cubic employee shares some of his experiences and Swan products....  READ MORE	UncleBrad 08/14/2019	Friends