Wow! Can my kids both be 38 years old! Yes! ’cause they are twins. Here are the pics!
Continue reading...Christmas Snow of ’09
Just like the song, we had a white Christmas this year in Frisco, Texas. This is enough snow to pretty much stop everything in its track here near Dallas. Thank God it is not as bad as the rest of the USA had to endure. In fact, the folks in my birth state of Ohio and cousin David in Buffalo, NY are probably rolling on the floor laughing at this “sprinkle”! But for us in North Texas, the...
Continue reading...Christmas 2009 Light Show
Here is a video display of my computerized lighting display for Christmas 2009. There are 32 individual circuits and thousands of individual lights. Elsewhere in this blog is a report on the design of the system. HERE The music is played on a broadcast band FM transmitter and can be heard on (visiting) car radios at 107.3 MHz. The display is not simply plugging in a song and letting the lights do their thing. There...
Continue reading...Microwave Final IF
This is the 20 year old never used Realistic HTX-100 10 meter SSB/CW transceiver I purchased on eBay. It is just like brand new. Not even a scratch on it. I bought this rig (ham speak for transceiver) to be the last intermediate frequency module for use in any portable microwave system I may assemble. I have nothing else yet so this is the start, the basic first building block. In the world of radio,...
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