Tayloe Demodulator

This article is the first in a series, documenting my journey building a Tayloe Demodulator as an HF radio receiver. This article focuses on a Spice simulation of a Tayloe demodulator. The schematic shown in Figure 1 was created with LTSpice, a well know Spice circuit simulator and schematic capture application. I recommend it. Simulation…

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Letter to My Future Self

Dear Future Me, I hope this letter finds you well—wherever you are, in whatever chapter of life you’re living. Right now, as I write this, life feels like a mix of clarity and chaos. There are things I’m proud of and things I’m still figuring out. I hope that by the time you read this,…

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WLOD on the air

WLOD is back on the air WLOD is now very different from the analog transmitters used thirty years ago. Now everything is digital up to the FM transmitter. After that it goes out over the air. The studio and transmitter are at my house. The server is in the cloud hosted on an AWS server…

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Vermeer Manufacturing

Some people have expressed negative opinions about Vermeer Manufacturing, including safety concerns, poor management, and low pay. Safety concerns In the 1980s, Vermeer’s big, round baler was involved in many accidents and lawsuits, including at least 11 deaths and 50 injuries.Some say that Vermeer’s safety record is worse than other companies that make similar machines.Poor…

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RF Ground Site Survey

So, I need to conduct an RF survey of a ground site. The survey’s purpose is to determine if there is any QRM in the area of a ground site receiving UHF radio signals for GNSS with RTK radios. What is QRM? It’s an amateur radio shorthand for man made noise encountered when trying to…

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