Yearly Archive: 2018

Ham Club Tips: How to Ruin Your Hamfest

Ham Club Tips: How to Ruin Your Hamfest

How to Ruin Your Hamfest (swapmeet) Find someone that is completely unfamiliar with your state AND cannot read a map.  Then put him in charge of hamfest “talk-in”.  Your club can earn bonus points...

Uranium from the Ocean ?

Uranium from the Ocean ?

Very interesting…..   the United States Department of Energy has sponsored research that has successfully ‘mined’ uranium from the ocean. Real world tests will begin soon.   At first reading, this seems to me to be...

Fixture idea for measuring capacitors

I just ran across this article on E.D.N. for a simple, easy, fast, home-made fixture for measuring your capacitors. https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/all-aboard-/4460638/Solder-wick-trick-characterizes-bypass-caps

Another possible cause of T.V.I. ?

“T V I” means Tele Vision Interference.   The most common causes of TVI are bad powerline insulators, poorly designed LED bulb circuits, poorly designed transmitters.  And, sometimes, the receiver is just overloaded by a...