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3616

Huh? / Re: Nikola Tesla's Birthday is today

« on: July 12, 2017, 1440 UTC »

Tesla was also working on wireless, he had his hands in a whole lot of stuff.

Tesla demonstrated a radio controlled boat. In 1898.

I've got a book of his patents and it's fing huge, he was interested in just about everything it seems. Also, his autobiography, however short, is a must read.

3617

VHF/UHF Logs, including satellites and radiosondes / Re: UHF mil air

« on: July 12, 2017, 1431 UTC »

Several ac testing some electronic doodad on 248.65 1400Z 12Jul17.

3618

Huh? / Re: A conversation

« on: July 11, 2017, 1630 UTC »

https://www.myinstants.com/instant/badum-tss/

3619

Huh? / Re: Nikola Tesla's Birthday is today

« on: July 11, 2017, 1628 UTC »

Nicky was an amazing man, who fell in love with a pigeon.

3620

The RF Workbench / Re: Improving my loops

« on: July 11, 2017, 1614 UTC »

Or you could just try it open ended, and then with a simple wire aka aligator clips to short the end. 0 ohms is close enough to 50 ohms for broadband rx porpoises.

3621

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WREC 6925 USB 2050 UTC 9 Jul 2017

« on: July 10, 2017, 1708 UTC »

lol@teenage enema nurses in bondage

3622

Bacon, BBQ, Beef, And More / Re: Eat The Butter

« on: July 09, 2017, 1334 UTC »

Agreed, but I'm keeping my wheat thins.

3623

General Radio Discussion / Re: FCC Boss Tries to Hide His Latest Gift to Sinclair Broadcasting

« on: July 09, 2017, 1329 UTC »

I'm guessing her nickname is "Filet".




















Lol, admit it, that was funny.

3624

General Radio Discussion / Re: Does anyone know what's become of Bram Stoker?

« on: July 09, 2017, 1327 UTC »

How can one not love a breast-themed station?

3625

General Radio Discussion / Re: Why am I Still Listening to British Radio in the U.S.?

« on: July 09, 2017, 1326 UTC »

If I end up in hell I just know they'll be playing hiphop.

I think modern country music is much more likely. No creativity whatsoever. But then again, that's really true of any popular music these days. It just seems ESPECIALLY true of country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8SwIvxj8o

Agreed. Now they just need autotune and Nicki Minaj to write their lyrics.

3626

Bacon, BBQ, Beef, And More / Re: Eat The Butter

« on: July 08, 2017, 1639 UTC »

A customer at work mentioned how she went on a fat diet and lost 13 pounds so far. Fat as in meats, butter, etc but low carbs. Also note that the Inuit and other peoples who lived off pretty much whale blubber had no heart disease, obesity, or cancer until they gave up raw food for the processed food the explorers revealed to them.

3627

General Radio Discussion / Re: Why am I Still Listening to British Radio in the U.S.?

« on: July 08, 2017, 1624 UTC »

If I end up in hell I just know they'll be playing hiphop.

3628

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Clever Name Radio, 6940 22:37 UTC 6 Jul 2017

« on: July 07, 2017, 0009 UTC »

6940 USB 2336Z 06Jul17 S7, decent sig but static crashes
2336Z Piano and horn piece
2340Z Guitar with Spanish om vocals
2341Z English yl? vocals, static is pretty tough
2343Z English om rock tune
"6735 Cool Am Radio, a virus so powerful no one can stand in its way"

Recorded some for your enjoyment, rig rsp2, hdsdr app.
https://mega.nz/fm/IiAUSSaA

 

3629

Huh? / Re: Al, we both know that SDR's are Satan's scanners.....

« on: July 04, 2017, 1647 UTC »

When I use my sdrs for digital mode decoding I don't need a knob, however, when I want to listen to voice modes and cruise the band via the sdr rigs I'm frustrated by the lack of same. I've been pestering a manufacturer of low cost radio doodads to roll out a cheap but cheerfull tuning knob and they're looking it over. There's a few vids on youtoob where a guy took apart a mice and used its optoencoder to make a tuning knob, so it can be done by the home builder. We should make one for Al that has penguin stickers on it.

3630

Equipment / Re: Low Band Antennae

« on: July 04, 2017, 1620 UTC »

Hey thanks for bringing that up on the HAM multiband verticals. You reminded me I've a few fibreglass comet multiband HAM base antennas in the garage, will have to see if any covers 6m, then I'm good to go.