Archives: 2010 July
Daniel Schorr
July 23rd, 2010, No Comments
For many years now, I’ve admired Daniel Schorr’s reporting on NPR. I could instantly recognize his voice, and perhaps to the irritation of Terah, whenever I heard him on the radio, I’d turn it up and ask that we be quiet for a couple minutes so I could listen. The thing about Dan is that [...]
Once, We Were Makers
July 21st, 2010, 16 Comments
I saw an article on Wired today: The Lost Tribes of RadioShack. It is well worth the read even if you’re not into electronics. A key quote: [H]is shop is a lone outpost; in a single generation, the American who built, repaired, and tinkered with technology has evolved into an entirely new species: the American [...]
KD0MJT
July 17th, 2010, 3 Comments
Wow — tonight was thrilling. It’s hard to explain why, but it’s pretty exciting to have a radio setup that is all wrong in so many ways work well enough for me to sit in my kitchen in Kansas and talk to someone in Indianapolis using only two-way HF radios. I recently passed my technician [...]
Radios
July 10th, 2010, 7 Comments
Those of you that follow me on twitter or identi.ca know that I’ve been working on my amateur radio license. This started a few weeks ago when Jacob got excited about radios, and must have infected me too. I’ve been studying and learning a bit. I had called a local ham (amateur radio operator) I [...]
