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Going Home
After having picked up my new truck, it was time to take it home. My wife drove her Subaru, and I drove the new truck to the Anacortes ferry terminal, on a much nicer day than the previous two.
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First Charge
As a person experiencing an electric vehicle for the first time, I am of course subject to the dreaded range anxiety.
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Rivian Delivery
After having had my “First Mile” experience, I was excited (in a restrained way) about the prospect of getting my new vehicle in the next month or so.
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Rivian First Mile Experience
Back in mid-2021, I heard about an electric vehicle (EV) startup named “Rivian”, who piqued my curiosity, as they were building an exciting EV truck targeted towards off-road users, but was also a luxurious, sporty vehicle while on-road.
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Solar Cycle 25
When I got interested in HF radio, in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, I remember a couple of things: One was how much of a struggle it was for a young person like me (at the time) to afford the latest and greatest HF receivers, although I did try pretty hard and did reasonably well, ending up with a Drake R7A and an Icom IC-R70 that were both fairly superlative.
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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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