This log periodic antenna is in Cedar Rapids, IA and is on the location of where Arthur Collins started his radio business. It’s one of the original plants that built shortwave radios and is part of the ham radio club there. It is very large.
Suki was sleeping and a land shark came up and bit her in the nose. When later asked about the shark attack Suki said, “No big woof!”. No stuffed land sharks where harmed during the production of this article. Suki did bite on the shark later however.
liat is an application that will List It At the Top! Try using it as a companion to the legendary tail utility when watching a log file. It was written to list text that is most recent on the first line (top) and push the rest of the screen down. Instead of pushing the screen…
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…
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…
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,…
I went to visit the VLBI antenna near Cedar Rapids, IA one afternoon and took pictures. Here they are.
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…
Recently, I put together a raspberry pi3 and an RTL-SDR V3 receiver. Pictures to follow.
