Microwave: The barely noticeable flutter of the fingers of one hand produced when the shy girl notices the equally shy but cute young boy with the big puppy eyes has been staring at her. As mentioned in my last column I have taken a new interest in microwaves. But not the kind I defined above. (Those were the days… oh,uh… never mind. I don’t think it is quite the same these days!) Today I am...
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Amateur Radio Blogging
I have been writing for the PARK, Plano Amateur Radio Klub newsletter and website for many years. I had stopped for awhile but recently started writing again. I just sort of ramble along with what I write. The web site shows a high level of hits I have been told. However I have a problem with the design/layout of the site. Its grown old and I find it disjointed and jumbled to navigate the site....
Continue reading...FM30 Repaired
I bought a new Ramsey FM30 FM broadcast band transmitter kit. I have it in hand. I was also sent gratis the repair and upgrade parts for the old transmitter shown here. The most critical item was the final amplifier which is a GAL5 surface mount technology (SMT) amplifier chip. This is the part I determined was bad in the previous report. The part is very tiny and has no leads (wires) off of it...
Continue reading...Wow! A full day’s work!
That means 24 hours, not eight! I have a fairly large and involved web server share where I keep all my web sites alive and well. I have a reason to need a new version of one of the programming languages I use called PHP 5.2 . The old server I was living on only could give me a very old PHP 4.x version. Yeah geek talk but reason to make a change. It is...
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