Making Change

It would be great if this little bit of code could make a change for the benefit of all mankind. But for now, it’s an example of how to make change for currency (money). Looking for my next great adventure, one of the managers of a position that I was really interested in, asked me…

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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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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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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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