Posts
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Downunder Folded Dipole
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Labelling Your Ferrites
73's to Everyone -
A Leap Forward
Beverage Headend -
Field Day, QRP, and Antenna Pruning
I had a great, but minimalist Field Day this year, where I finally got to transmit on my Icom IC-705, operated on 6 meters for the first time, and experienced QRP operation for the first time.
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DIY Common Mode Choke
Common-mode choke impedance graph -
The 17M UFO
Super-wide "alien" signal just above 17M band -
The (RFI) Plot Thickens
40M SMPS hash on IC-705 -
Effect of Common Mode Chokes
KiwiSDR waterfall with no common-mode choke -
A Linear Power Supply Didn't Help Much
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LED Dial Lights for Drake TR-7
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A Tale of Two Power Supplies
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Tracking the Elusive SMPS
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Magic Signal to Noise (SNR)
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HFDL on KiwiSDR
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The Chip Shortage Bites
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SDR Without Windows?
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Conflicting Advice Regarding Bonding and Grounding
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New Beverage Antenna Finally Under Construction
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Password-less SSH with a Certificate Authority and OpenSSH
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Kiwi Is Back
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Blog Fatigue
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Another New Blog?
Here we are in another new year with not enough blogging going on, and I am somewhat dismayed to find that the platform that this blog is based on (Jekyll) is now apparently in trouble. The primary developer and maintainer passed away and people are now wondering how active the ecosystem will remain going forward.
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Another Sad Story of Common Mode
I have been running a KiwiSDR for a number of years since I arrived on Orcas Island. When it was first set up with a nice Beverage antenna running East-West (thanks Teresia and Kyle!) many people commented on how useful it was and how well they could hear things on it.
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What, Me Worry?
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Whither SDR?
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A Swing and a Miss
After a long hiatus, I wanted to look into hosting a Wiki. I ended up looking at some pages like this.
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An American Philosopher
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The Expanse
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Back to Blogging
After a number of years away, I finally got around to setting up a blog again. I’ve been motivated to do this for a number of reasons:
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Blog is Rebooted!
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The Broken Glass
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QtRadio Rocks!
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Mercury First Light
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Getting ready for "First Light"
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Automation, finally
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Antenna Guru
Years ago, I was impressed by this article, written by John Doty:
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