Site History
Site History
This page provides a summary of recent changes to this site.
Site History
| 2009 Sept 27 | New in Mashups -Take a Video Tour of the Ameritron Amplifier Factory–Wow. Did you ever want to see how your Ameritron Linear Amplifier was manufactured?If so, then this video is for you.The video is quite long, and at times slow moving. But for your patience in watching this 28 minute video you will see the components and the parts that go into making the Ameritron product line plus the people that put them together.Yes Virgina, they are hand assembled by Americans.Link to the video in Mashups | |
| 2009 Sept 26 | New Posting - Accidental Entrepreneurs: YouTube pays David $14K for a months fun at the Redneck Resort |
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| 2009 Sept 25 | New Posting – EVERNOTE – Save your ideas, things you see, and things you like: Comprehending the Business Model of FREE |
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| 2009 Sept 25 | New in Mashups – A Low point in Microsoft Marketing – Windows 7 “Launch Party” video and ParodyMicrosoft is inviting people to have a Windows 7 “Launch Party”. Wow. If you have seen those Infomercials for the Magic Bullet you will notice the similarity. Links to Microsoft video and Parody in Mashups | |
| 2009 Sept 24 | New in Mashups - The Story of Radio – from the BBC – across the pond. 28 Pages – link in mashups |
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| 2009 Sept 20 | New Posting– Emergency Preparedness: 30 ft fiberglass mast and base for $40 |
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| 2009 Sept 19 | New Posting– Accidental Entrepreneurs: the evolution of a small business |
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| 2009 Sept 14 | New in Mashups — How about an antenna booster project made out of cardboard and aluminum foil?Not for your Amateur Radio, but for your 2 GHz home wireless network.Check out the video, and link to the templates and detailed instructions. In Mashups. | |
| 2009 Sept 13 | New in Mashups — The History of Radio – Marconi to Telstar (1896 – 1960)This is a really great summary of the history of radio from Marconis “Telegraph without wires” up to Telstar 1 (1960’s). Lots of nice pictures and diagrams and easy to read in 30 pages. Link in Mashups | |
| 2009 Sept 12 | New in Mashups — World Radio Magazine is now on-line and free –Check out the link in Mashups | |
| 2009 Sept 11 | New in Mashups — Human being vs Robotics –Watch a human doing surface mount soldering, and a selective soldering robot. Stay out of the way of the MOTOMAN Robots. And finally, see the robot to put on your next Xmas list. All in Mashups | |
| 2009 Sept 06 | New Posting — Small Business – The Entrepreneur, The Manager, and The Technician | |
| 2009 Sept 05 | New Posting — The University of Phoenix – Business model mystery solved | |
| 2009 Sept 05 | New in Mashups–If politicians (who are mostly lawyers) can reform health care can doctors reform the legal industry?Read the entertaining “A Doctor’s Plan for Legal Industry Reform: My modest proposal to rearrange how lawyers do business.” from the Wall Street Journal. Link on our Mashups page. | |
| 2009 Sept 01 | New in Mashups– What Makes a Psychopath?“Psychopaths are often big trouble for those around them,” said clinical psychologist Joseph Newman at the University of Wisconsin. “If we can find out what underlies their problems, we might be able to identify what kinds of interventions might be able to work for them.”Scientists investigating the disorder commonly agree that psychopaths are often marked by the following traits:-Lack of empathy, guilt, conscience or remorse -Shallow experiences of feelings or emotions -Impulsivity and a weak ability to defer gratification and control behavior -Superficial charm and glibness -Irresponsibility and a failure to accept responsibility for their actions -A grandiose sense of their own worth”Read the full article in mashups |
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| 2009 Aug 30 | New in Mashups– Small business success and failure -”With roughly 6.7 million jobs lost since the start of the recession, it’s tempting – and often a great idea – to launch your own business. That way, of course, you can take matters into your own hands. No more rolling your eyes at the boss; it’s your show….There’s this very sad pattern about how people start businesses,” says Scott Shane, an entrepreneurship professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. “People are most likely to start businesses in industries where start-ups are most likely to fail.
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| 2009 Aug 30 | New in Mashups– free ebook for you.Crystal Sets to Sideband A guide to building your own amateur radio station by frank W. Harris K0IYE Link to this free ebook on the Mashups page |
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| 2009 Aug 28 | New in Mashups– “The site, DeathRiskRankings.com, is the brainchild of researchers and students at Carnegie Mellon University. It provides answers based on publicly available data from the United States and Europe, comparing mortality risks by gender, age, cause of death and geographic region. Put your info in, and it produces the probable causes of your demise and provides insight on the timing of that unfortunate event.”Read the article – calculate the date of your death. Then make a “Bucket List”. Execute. | |
| 2009 Aug 26 | New Posting –Sixteen Questions for an Enlightened Citizenry – Economic Beliefs | |
| 2009 Aug 25 | New Posting –Fun with FreeNAS – iSCSI – When a local disk is not local | |
| 2009 Aug 23 | New Posting –NAS for Clunkers: How to turn that old PC into a high tech Network Storage, Web Server, and Torrent Server | |
| 2009 Aug 18 | New in Mashups – Score one for Government Transparency & Accountability –If you live in Illinois, or if you just want to take a look-see, the State of Illinois has set up a “Illinois Transparency & Accountability Portal”. It looks like this provides financial accountability down to salary to the individual level. You can all see roll-ups of spending by agency and much more.Very nice – and expected, since this it’s “your tax dollars at work” | |
| 2009 Aug 17 | New in Mashups – Check out the U.S. Marine Corps Field Antenna Handbook- 192 pages | |
| 2009 Aug 15 | New in Mashups – Will we run out of juice charging americas electric vechicles?“The Great Electric Car Quandary: How to Build a Charging Infrastructure Before Demand GrowsDozens of new electric-vehicle models from General Motors, Ford, Toyota and others are expected to hit the streets within the next couple of years. Will there be enough juice to keep them moving?”Check out the article from Scientifc American.Another parse of the 1,000+ page Health Care PlanThe Health Care Bill: What HR 3200, ‘‘America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009,” SaysLinks on the mashups page | |
| 2009 Aug 11 | New in Mashups – The Obama Health Care Plan…What does it all mean?Can’t get through the 1,000+ page “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act”? Then check out this easy to read PDF on an opinion on what it all could mean for you. Plus get the links to the full text of the Act.Links on the mashups page | |
| 2009 Aug 10 | New in Mashups – A Blu-Ray player from that old VCR you are about to throw out?In this world of consumer electronics many people don’t really know what’s inside some of these devices. So don’t throw out that old VCR. What the consumer electronic people don’t want you to know is that is that if you salvage that old VCR you might find that inside is everything you need to make a Blu-Ray player. Check out the video to see what’s inside that VCR that you are about to thow in the trash.Links on the mashups page | |
| 2009 Aug 03 | New in MashupsWhat they don’t want you to know about batteriesHere are a couple of videos on the little known facts about batteries….
… first, the little known quad-A (AAAA) battery… … and the real reason why 12 volt car batteries are “sealed” and they don’t want you looking inside Links to the videos in Mashups |
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| 2009 July 31 | New Posting — Second Date: Review of the Degen DE1123 DSP AM/FM/SW Pocket Radio with 1GB MP3 Player & Recorder | |
| 2009 July 25 | New in Mashups – Field Manual 21-11 – First Aid for Soldiers – “This manual also addresses first aid measures for other life threatening situations. It outlines both self-treatment (self-aid) and aid to other soldiers (buddy aid). More importantly, this manual emphasizes prompt and effective action in sustaining life and preventing or minimizing further suffering. First aid is the emergency care given to the sick, injured, or wounded before being treated by medical personnel.”Links to this 300 page manual in Mashups |
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| 2009 July 23 | New in Mashups – K2FR – Emergency Battery Backup Power SystemCheck out the video of K2FR’s Emergency Backup power system for his HF and VHF/UHF rigs. Links to the video and products in Mashups. | |
| 2009 July 18 | New Posting - How to NOT derail your corporate or organizational career |
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| 2009 July 17 | New in Mashups – Homebrew – SimpleX Mark II 80/40m ReceiverHow here is some beautiful Homebrew.Check out Big Nicks youtube video and web site pictures of the SimpleX Mark II 80/40m Receiver. All in Mashups | |
| 2009 July 11 | New in Mashups – ARRL Strategic Plan - Have you ever looked at the ARRL Strategic Plan? Looks like ARRL will be updating this in July 2009.How does the ARRL Strategic Plan stack up with other Strategic Plans for Profit and not-for-profit corporations? Watch for a future posting once ARRL puts some meat in this plan after their meeting.For now, take a look-see at ARRL’s Strategic Plan in Mashups |
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| 2009 July 10 | New posting - Review of the Degen DE1123 DSP AM/FM/SW Pocket Radio with 1GB MP3 Player & Recorder |
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| 2009 July 09 | New posting Check out our book recommendation - Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom: How Online Social Networking Will Transform Your Life, Work and World |
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| 2009 July 07 | New in Mashups There is no stopping K1OIK Burt Fisher Check out his video on tuning up the Ameritron AL-811H Linear Amp. Then take a look inside and re/read one of our past postingsAll the links in Mashups |
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| 2009 July 06 | New in MashupsDown and out? Depressed? Need an uplifting message? Be self-assured and confident – see the link to the Lisa Nova video in Mashups |
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| 2009 July 04 | New Posting Amateur Radios Fall from Grace: the discussion in QRZ on licensing and testing |
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| 2009 July 04 | New in Mashups – Streaming video w/75 meter nets Should Amatur Radio operators been seen as well as heard? Perhaps they tool a cue from Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh steams live video while doing a radio show. Now hams are doing this was well. Check out our Mashups page for links to Hams on 75 meters that also stream live live video |
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| 2009 July 03 | New in Mashups -What’s new at Dayton 2009 An expansion of the material presented in July 2009 QST; page 61 Joel R. Hallas, W1ZR |
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| 2009 Jun 27 | New in Mashups – Radio Shack history going back to 1939 Everyone knows Radio Shack and perhaps Allied Radio. There is an extraordinary web site with excellent reproductions of catalogs going back to 1939 plus videos of Radio television commercials going back to the 1970’s. Check out the link in Mashups. |
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| 2009 Jun 27 | New in Mashups: Another Volunteer Examiner joins the club – Briggs Longbothum, AB2NJHow to pass the Amateur Radio exam – learning anything is optional. |
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| 2009 Jun 27 | New Posting: SWAY: The irresistible pull of irrational behavior. |
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| 2009 Jun 23 | New Posting: How much oversight does the national ARRL exercise over its ARRL sections |
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| 2009 Jun 23 | New in Mashups – Advice from Arizona ARRL Section on how to pass the Amateur Radio ExamsA surprising recommendation | |
| 2009 Jun 17 | New in Mashups: Leaving friends behind. The problem of personal irrelevancy. A saga of social evolution. An observation by Ed Yourdon in Mashups |
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| 2009 Jun 13 | New PostingHow to auction off an ordinary twenty dollar bill for fun and profit | |
| 2009 Jun 12 | New in Mashups. “A Cheap And EZ HDTV Antenna Project” by Kent Britian WA5VJBOk, lets see if we can size up the situation.It’s June 12, 2009 and there is no longer any analog television starting today… … and your digital television reception is really bad… … and you want a weekend project… … and you like building antennas…Well, we have a solution for you.How about a weekend project to build your own HDTV Digital TV antenna ?? Kent Britain, WA5VJB, has great weekend construction project for you. Kent writes antenna columns for CQ, CQVHF, and Popular Communication plus a microwave column for the German magazine DUBUS.So. there you go – how much better can it get than that? Check out the links in Mashups |
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| 2009 Jun 11 | New in MashupsThe end of Analog TV is tomorrow June 12,2009Ready for digital? Check out our links on digital TV antenna comparisons and digital television coverage in your area.Links in Information Mashups | |
| 2009 Jun 10 | New in MashupsHow does your ham shack stack up?Check out the video compliments of Dave KC9MAV.Plus, see the “Big Gun” commercial station placed into Ham Radio service Links in Information Mashups | |
| 2009 Jun 08 | New in Mashups“The frantic global rush to connect everyone to everyone, all the time, is quietly giving rise to a revised version of socialism… Nearly every day another startup proudly heralds a new way to harness community action. These developments suggest a steady move toward a sort of socialism uniquely tuned for a networked world…It is not anti-American; indeed, digital socialism may be the newest American innovation. While old-school socialism was an arm of the state, digital socialism is socialism without the state. This new brand of socialism currently operates in the realm of culture and economics, rather than government—for now.“Sharing, cooperation, collaboration, and collectivism – where will it all lead?Check out the article from Wired Magazine in Mashups | |
| 2009 Jun 07 | New Posting – Small Transmitting Loop Tuners from MFJ | |
| 2009 Jun 05 | New in Mashups- Burt Fisher, K1OIK, strikes again.Why do people show up at 3:30am for an 8am hamfest? See the double lines of people waiting to get into Near-Fest. See the interviews with the folks that run the fest. What drives people to be first in line when the hamfest is hrs away? Do you know about what happens among the sellers before you get in there?Can you swap an antenna for grilled cheese sandwich at NEAR-Fest?Watch the videos and find out?Check out Burt Fishers NEAR-Fest videos. Links in Mashups | |
| 2009 May 30 | New Posting The Fifth Pillar of Amateur Radio: hiding in plain sight |
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| 2009 May 27 | New in Mashups A Cultural Anthropologist and an analysis of YouTube Networked individualism, context collapse, new masks and new identities, hyper self-awareness, cultural inversion. For hard core only. A cultural anthropologist looks at YouTube and the YouTube community. Link in Mashups |
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| 2009 May 26 | New in Mashups Real-time web-based DX Clusters Don’t want to install DX Cluster software on your PC/Mac? Then try out these real-time web-based DX Clusters. Links on our Mashups page. |
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| 2009 May 25 | New in Mashups YouTube vbloggers – taking a ride on some else’s dime“Despite the growth of YouTube’s user base, there is little evidence to suggest Google has been able to materially monetize this usage,” Many people are used to the idea that many things on the Internet are “free”. It would be better to think of “free” in terms of “cost shifting”. People who upload their videos to YouTube do it “for free” but it does cost cost someone something ( a lot ) to store and distribute those videos when “everyman” clicks on a YouTube video link. So while vbloggers are blissfully uploading video’s and ranting on why (copyright) music is being taken out of their videos by the YouTube minders someone is paying the bill for all this. It’s kind of an interesting contrast. On one hand you have the blissful idealism of vbloggers engaged in the euphoria of social media and on the other hand you have the entrepreneur and business people racking thier brain on how to pay for all this. Read more about what it costs Google to support YouTube and ideas to make YouTube profitable… on our Mashups page |
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| 2009 May 23 | New in Mashups Find out what happened to Motorola Iridium Global phone system post bankruptcy.Twitter me this. Will Twitter tweet no more? No business plan; un-monetizable; operating at a loss in perpetuity. Have these attributes ever stopped any internet business start-up? No way – these are minor inconveniences. See what the faculty at Wharton School of Business have to say about Twitter.Still don’t have the perfect Twitter application. We have a link to a database of 800+ Twitter applications for almost any device and interface to other applications and social networking sitesWatch messages on the Twitter public timeline in real-time across the globe. All the links and info in Mashups. |
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| 2009 May 23 | New Posting The Future of Satellite Radio: What Satellite Radio can learn from Motorola Iridium |
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| 2009 May 19 | New in mashups Did you miss the 2009 Dayton Hamvention? Too bad. Check out our Mashups page for some links to video tours of the Dayton 2009 Hamvention. |
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| 2009 May 17 | New Posting Global Internet Distribution of Cultural Media: How Internet Radio was oh so 5 minutes ago |
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| 2009 May 15 | Watch in full screen Direct link to Dayton Hamvention live video and audio. Paste into your browser or use Windows media player… File… Open URL… mms://66.231.242.90/hamradio |
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| 2009 May 15 | New posting: Postscript: Who is the audience for Shortwave Radio?This is a follow-up to the posting: Terrestrial Radio: the end of an era? | |
| 2009 May 14 | Finally, a new original article Terrestrial Radio: the end of an era? |
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| 2009 May 13 |
Dayton Hamvention AlertW5KUB is streaming live video and audio from the Dayton Hamfest All the links on our Mashups page. Good for you Tom – nice use of Technology. |
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| 2009 May 11 | New in Mashups. Watch the drive to Dayton, the Hamvention, and the return. Plus win prizes! Can’t go to the Dayton Hamvention 2009? Then maybe WA5KUB (Thomas Medlin) has a solution for you. You can drive to the hamfest with them, attend the hamfest, and return via a live internet broadcast.Check out the links on our mashups page to see the setup in the car with video camera, laptop, and internet access.On another topic - 2-Meter ham band in a traditional AM/FM consumer radio. Check out the new C.Crane CCRadio-2 AM/FM/2-Meter table top radio and a PR buzz for Amateur Radio to the general public. All in Mashups |
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| 2009 May 09 | New in MashupsSpend a weekend learning about this history of broadcast Radio. Our Mashup page has links to these sites
And we have a link to an FCC web site where you can see some very detailed Digital TV coverage maps for your area. All in Mashups |
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| 2009 May 07 | New in Mashups Here is a Amateur Radio Club making a national positive contribution to Amateur RadioSoutheastern Massachusetts Amateur Radio Association, IncThese folks are providing audio digests of popular Amateur Radio magazines for those with visual impairments, and reading disabilities. Seems the credit of countless hours of recording these audio digests goes to Bob Zeida N1BLF.Check out our mashups page for more detail and a link to the archive of audio digests for CQ Magazine, QST, World Radio, HandiHam World, and QCWA journal.Please respect the target use and copyright that you will hear at the beginning of the recordings. |
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| 2009 May 06 | New on the site We are following the ARRL on Twitter. Check the right sidebar near the bottom. And, we have an RSS audio feed of ARRL Audio News via MP3. Click on any to read or listen. |
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| 2009 May 05 | New in Information Mashups. Digital modes on the Flex 5000 Software Defined Radio Can you stop Burt Fisher K1OIK? No, you can’t stop Burt Fisher talking about the Flex 5000 Software Defined Radio.Check out Burt’s latest entry. How to use the Virtual Audio Cable on the Flex 5000 SDR for digital modes. Link on our Mashups page. | |
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| 2009 May 02 | New in Information Mashups. With 14 million people on Twitter from mobile devices, what is Twitter sensing and signaling about events in the world? What is the Twitter Ecosystem? An earthquake in Southern California was sensed on Twitter in 30 seconds. Is Twitter disruptive to e-mail, facebook, and traditional forms of electronic communication? What the heck is going on with this technology for which there are now about 2500 interfacing applications, 14 million mobile users, and phenomenal growth?Although we love watching Lisa Nova and HotForWords explain Twitter through their videos on YouTube we finally found an in-depth, professional, and comprehensive video presentation on Twitter in business, for non-profits, and the whole social networking phenomenon of Twitter.Twitter for Business 101 was taught at Harvard Business School. Check out Information mashups for a link to a 45 min video presentation by the person who taught this at Harvard. A very excellent professional presentation. |
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| 2009 May 01 | New in Information Mashups. AMSAT-OSCAR-51 SatelliteSatellite’s anyone? We always like to see Gen-X’ers get excited about Amateur Radio. Check out the video from KC2UOO on his first satellite contact on A0-51. Totally awesome, dude.Then watch Randy K7AGE pull it off. Check out Information Mashups for both these videos and a link to free Satellite Tracking Software. |
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| 2009 Apr 28 | New in Information Mashups. “W1AW, the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station, is a living memorial to the “Father of Organized Amateur Radio”, located at ARRL Headquarters in Newington CT. When visiting ARRL HQ, most amateurs choose W1AW as the place to see where Amateur Radio comes alive.” Take a video tour of ARRL Headquarters compliments of Randy K7AGE |
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| 2009 Apr 25 | New article: Review of the Apple iPod Touch – Redux: Our iLife | |
| 2009 Apr 22 | New article: Creative Commons license for content from frrl.wordpress.com Were you thinking of snatching a complete article off of this web site or another web site and publishing it as filler in your Amateur Radio club newsletter or web site? New media – new rules. Read the license granted to you to take content from this site – and, as collateral damage – learn about Creative Commons licensing for the new media at the same time. |
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| 2009 Apr 20 | New in Information Mashups – Can you understand a common weather forecast? Apparantly only 43 percent of college kids based on a study of 450 Pacific Northwest college students in series of experiments funded by the National Science Foundation. Please come out of the rain and read the full story in Mashups | |
| 2009 Apr 19 | New article: Review of the Apple iPod Touch: First Date Report | |
| 2009 Apr 16 | New in Information Mashups – Did you file your taxes? How does your tax return stand up against Barach Obama’s tax returns? Check out mashups for 4 years of Barach Obama’s tax returns. |
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| 2009 Apr 15 | New in Information Mashups – Check out these videos NYC Resistor Hacker Space. Take a video tour of a collaborative lab were people build funky electronics and gadgets. What is the goal? – Learn, Share, and Make things. Maker Bot – A 3D Printing Robot. All open source. Build one for yourself from a kit. Check out a video of how it works. What’s the goal? – Make manufacturing for the masses. |
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| 2009 Apr 14 | New in Information Mashups – Did you pay your taxes? How does the tax burden in the United State compare with other countries around the world? How much do corporations pay in income tax vs individuals? What is the history of taxation? And yes, the Forbes Tax Misery Index Graph by Countryis there was well. Misery loves company. See where your country stands. All on our Information Mashup page. | |
| 2009 Apr 12 | New in Information Mashups – Were you thinking of buying a Yaesu FT-450? The Yaesu FT-450 is an entry level HF radio that just about anyone can afford. The base FT-450 is $669; with the built-in antenna tuner its $769.How big is this radio in real life? What does the display look like? What sort of features does it have? No RF power control on the front panel – whats up with that? Would this be a good radio for mobile use – nice display – but do the buttons light up for mobile use at night? Check out a new hams (KC2UOO) video review of the Yaesu FT-450on our mashups page. |
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| 2009 Apr 11 | New in Information Mashups – We have a real classic fom the History of Radio. In the 1930’s to mid 1940’s Rider published a book called “Servicing Superheterodynes“. You can find a real hardcopy on ebay. We have a PDF version on the Information Mashups page. Also, we have included a reminder link to Richard McWhorter’s free ebook “The Vacuum Tube Shortwave Radio: Understanding and Troubleshooting.” for those who want a modern book on repairing and restoring antique radios. |
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| 2009 Apr 03 | New in Information Mashups – Precision tuning your loop antenna – Get to know a Stepper Motor … the SAA1042 Stepper Motor driver chip and the 555 timer. Don’t know what a Stepper Motor is and what it can do for you? Good! Now is a good time to learn about it.A while back we wrote an article on the AES IsoLoop small loop transmitting antenna. You might want to build your own. To make precision movements on the tuning capacitor you could use a Stepper Motor.Check out our Mashups page for background on Stepper Motors, the schematic from the AEA IsoLoop controller, datasheets for the two major IC’s, and if you want to build one from a kit, we have the manual for the Ramsey SMD1 Stepper Motor driver kit ($35). | |
| 2009 Mar 29 | New in Information Mashups – “To die — To sleep– To sleep– perhaps to dream. But that’s the rub: in the sleep of death, what dreams may come?” Shakespeare’s Hamlet applied to your PC – how much does it cost? The 2009 PC Energy Report reveals some staggering findings. In terms of savings alone, it’s possible to save over $2.8 billion in the US alone through turning off your PC while in the UK it’s nearer £300 million and €918 million in Germany. For example, if all the world’s 1 billion PC’s were powered down for just one night – it would save enough energy to light up New York City’s Empire State Building – inside and out – for more than 30 years If you run a company with 1,000 PCs left on overnight, you can save about $28,000 a year if they are turned off after hours. That’s not chump change. Read the full report in Mashups |
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| 2009 Mar 28 | New in Information Mashups – The Collins R390A/URR-a piece of military history. “The Collins designed, R390A/URR general coverage HF radio receiver is considered to be the finest HF radio receiver ever built. Tuning .5 to 31,999 mhz and employing 21 vacuum tubes and weighing in at 85 lbs, this electro-mechanical wonder was designed in the early 50’s and released for military use on February 24, 1954.” The R-390A is a piece of military radio history, very collectible, and readily available. Check out Mashups for history, technical, images, and a 300+ page manual that shows you what is inside one of these 85 pound monsters – operation, theory of operation, troubleshooting, maintenance, and much more. |
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| 2009 Mar 27 | New in Information Mashups – How to build a Fox Hole Radio. During World War II GI’s in foxholes in Europe and POW’s would build radios out of whatever was available. No matter how bad your situation you might be able to get a hold of some wire, a razor blade, and a pin or pencil. If you had all these things you could build a simple receiver to hear local broadcasts. These simple radios made by GI’s and POWs during WWII were generically known as Fox Hole Radios. Check out our collection of videos, other assets and build your own fox hole radio. A good family project with your kid. |
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| 2009 Mar 24 | New in Information Mashups - Knowledge is Power – Check out Mashups for links to these on-line full text books * Radio Receivers, from crystal set to stereo * Understanding Electronics Components * PIC microcontrollers, for beginners too * PIC Microcontrollers * Architecture and Programming of 8051 Microcontrollers |
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| 2009 Mar 23 | New in Information Mashups - APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting System) – Follow Me! TwitterVision; The TwiterSphere; Are you are a Twitter-lebrity? – Follow Me! What happens when people realize the Emperor has no clothes? The fragility of belief in self-importance |
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| 2009 Mar 21 | Limited Space Antennas – The Small Transmitting Loop Antenna How to build your own. Or, using OPL – the AEA Isoloop |
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| 2009 Mar 19 | New in Information Mashups – SDR (Software Defined Radio) How 5-minutes ago. The new kids on the block are single carbon nanotube receivers… “We have constructed a fully functional, fully integrated radio receiver, orders-of-magnitude smaller than any previous radio, from a single carbon nanotube. The single nanotube serves, at once, as all major components of a radio: antenna, tuner, amplifier, and demodulator. “ | |
| 2009 Mar 18 | New in Information Mashups – CB’ers do crazy stuff. Check out the video of a 4,000 Watt mobile stationand watch this guy key up 3,500+ Watts from his vehicle. (Of course frrl.wordpress.com does not endorse such behavior – but we all stop to look at a train wreck – so check out the video | |
| 2009 Mar 16 | New in Information Mashups – Many of those companies you buy your Ham Radio equipment from are small businesses. Check out our Mashup page for the results of a survey on small business competitiveness, success, and the state of small business in 2009. | |
| 2009 Mar 14 | The Tarheel Screwdriver Antenna: one up on the Texas Bug Catcher. | |
| 2009 Mar 12 | New in Information Mashups – Do you know where HF activity is right now? Don’t want to install DX Lab on your computer? Check our mashup page for DX Spotting on the web. | |
| 2009 Mar 10 | New in Information Mashups – Scanner Listener? No mattter where you live in in the World, if you need frequency information for a business, public safety, or any radio service,then this is the site for you. Includes the ability to map transmit locations using satellite maps. Download frequencies directly into your scanner. Plus discussion forums and all the rest. See our Information Mashups page for a link. | |
| 2009 Mar 08 | Play for Free – The Baygen Freeplay Plus AM/FM/SW Radio: Yes Virginia, there is a free lunch New in Information Mashups – Software Defined Radio for the Masses by Gerald Youngblood, AC5OG |
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| 2009 Mar 05 | New content in Information Mashups (Burt Fishers K1OIK’s collection of videos on the Flex 5000 software defined radio) | |
| 2009 Feb 27 | A FM Radio for one-dollar. How is this possible? New content in Information Mashups (Video – Milestones in radio – 100 years ) |
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| 2009 Feb 24 | Outing Scott Adams – the creator of the Dilbert comic strip New content in Information Mashups |
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| 2009 Feb 19 | Dematerialize your Linux System: Or, why buy the Taxi when all you need is a ride? New Content in Information Mashups |
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| 2009 Feb 16 | Going Virtual-How to Virtualize your Linux/PC Environment | |
| 2009 Feb 15 | Let the Republic of China Backup your Linux and Windows PC | |
| 2009 Feb 14 | A Great Epic Corporate Battle - Shareholders vs Chicago Sun-Times Board of Directors and CEO |
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| 2009 Feb 06 | New Feature – Information Mashups. | |
| 2009 Feb 04 | Check out the response we got from Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Lights of America on our review of the $5 LED 40-watt equivalent light bulb. In the comments section of that review. | |
| 2009 Feb 02 | Product Review:Lights of America LED Light Bulb | |
| 2009 Feb 04 | Check out the response we got from Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Lights of America on our review of the $5 LED 40-watt equivalent light bulb. In the comments section of that review. | |
| 2009 Feb 02 | Product Review:Lights of America LED Light Bulb | |
| 2009 Jan 30 | My Stroke of Insight: a brain scientists personal journey | |
| 2009 Jan 24 | A new feature – The Reading Room. A collection of articles from writers on various subjects. We will add to this on a regular basis. | |
| 2009 Jan 24 | On Being Crushed: The Value of Adversity. Or, taking advantage of defining moments |
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| 2009 Jan 22 | Long Live The All American Five Or, Recovering a Piece of Radio History |
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| 2009 Jan 18 | Hands-off Electronics: A little bit of Monica. A little bit of Erica | |
| 2009 Jan 16 | Take a Break. Play the Bailout Game and save the United States | |
| 2009 Jan 14 | Diagnostic Tool for Teams: What type of team do you have? | |
| 2009 Jan 09 | Poetry Slam or News Conference: The Political Theater of Rod Blagojevich | |
| 2009 Jan 09 | From Loading Dock to CEO in 6 painful steps. Or, Navigating the Leadership Pipeline | |
| 2009 Jan 06 | Organizational Behavior: The Myth of Accountability and the Parent-Child Relationship | |
| 2009 Jan 03 | Can you be embarrassed? – What to learn from Rod Blagojevich | |
| 2008 Dec 29 | Hands-on Electronics – Signal tracing a simple transmitter Or, How not to be an appliance operator |
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| 2008 Dec 23 | Building Teams: Prescriptive Advice for Building Great Teams | |
| 2008 Dec 20 | Good to Great Part III: Building the Team | |
| 2008 Dec 18 | Uncle Eddy: the black sheep of the family that Amateur Radio does not talk about | |
| 2008 Dec 16 | Excuse Me. Your Class is showing | |
| 2008 Dec 12 | Things not going too good? Maybe you need a Second Life | |
| 2008 Dec 10 | Good To Great Part II: The Gift of Governor Rod Blagojevich | |
| 2008 Dec 07 | Amateur Video Battle: Twitter vs APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting System) | |
| 2008 Dec 04 | Amateur Radio Clubs: Good to Great; Good to Gone; Lost in Mediocracy | |
| 2008 Dec 03 | Save your Life: Review of Maxtor 4 Plus Safety Drill Software | |
| 2008 Nov 24 | Software Defined Radio: Burt Fishers (K1OIK) Review of FlexRadio 5000 | |
| 2008 Nov 20 | On being Burt Fisher K1OIK: polishing the image of Amateur Radio |
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| 2008 Nov 15 | Direct Conversion Receiver: making friends with the Signetics SA602 IC |
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| 2008 Nov 12 | On being Bob Sullivan W0YVA: amateur radio at the margins of society |
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| 2008 Nov 04 | Mass Media Effects on the Fourth Estate | |
| 2008 Nov 01 | The Pain of Analog Video Capture to Digital. How to get your analog video to digital |
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| 2008 Oct 26 | Added the posting – Listening to Shortwave on the Internet – Medium vs Message | |
| 2008 Oct 19 | Added the posting – Redefining Social Reality – The Age oof YouTube Celebrity. | |
| 2008 Oct 15 | Added the posting Review of the Pinnacle PCTV HD Ultimate Stick | |
| 2008 Oct 04 | Added the posting The Pixie Experiment – Going Diskless with Linux | |
| 2008 Oct 01 | Added the posting Learning about Linux the easy way – the KNOPPIX Live-CD | |
| 2008 Sept 28 | Added photographs to our posting Review of the Yaesu 7800Rof how use a $5 standard RJ11 6-conductor telphone extension cable and coupler as a remote head extension for the Yaesu 7800R | |
| 2008 Sept 27 | Added the posting: The Riddle of Kit Building – why do they do it? | |
| 2008 Sept 27 | In our posting Collecting Heathkits… Added a couple of resources. There is an excellent web site by k5bcq on Heathkit repair of many models. We also found an interesting article “Hot Water for the K2″ by k1rfd on how to leverage the final power anp of the Heathkit HW-101 (or really any of the SB/HW tube Heathkits) as the final drive for the Elecraft K2 – or any exciter source. | |
| 2008 Sept 25 | Added the posting: What is Inside the Black Box of Shortwave Radio | |
| 2008 Sept 20 | Updated posting Amateur Radio Beginnings… Added the text of Senate Bill 6412 – The Radio Act of 1912. This was the first legislation to regulate radio and set the limits for Amateur Radio operation to 200 meters and below and max 1 KW of power. | |
| 2008 Sept 20 | From the February 1916 issue of QST we added a four page article on Practical Relaying by Hiram Percy Maxim to our posting How the RELAY got into the ARRL | |
| 2008 Sept 14 | Added the posting Life on HF – The MFJ-1796 6-Band HF Antenna for Limited Space | |
| 2008 Sept 10 | Updated posting Amateur Radio Beginnings… Addded links to YouTube Videos showing working Vintage 200m 1KW Spark Gap Transmitters | |
| 2008 Sept 10 | First site promotional mailing goes out | |
| 2008 Sept 9 | Added the posting – How the RELAY got into the ARRL | |
| 2008 Sept 5 | Site relauch at http://wordpress.com |
