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Grumpy old man still holding onto his fascination with all the things that we can do and see with technology. Oh... and I take photos Oh... and I'm inventing BitGrid
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TIL you can use a NanoVNA to validate phasing of of the bifilar transformers in a Heathkit SB-104a final power amplifier. Channel 1 thru - checking loss Channel 1 phase - test windings 2 of the 4 transistors were bad... yet it put out 90 watts on 80 meters!

Holy shit, this is amazing... www.youtube.com/watch?v=M51b...

I had a chat with AI about my BitGrid project. I have no idea what this is going to look like to you, but I found it interesting. github.com/copilot/shar...

What would you do with a machine with a billion terabytes per second of memory bandwidth?

We had an amazing Import Surplus last year under Joe Biden, it was almost a Trillion dollars worth! The rulers of the past, Kings, Queens, Czars, would have all killed to be in such a position. Trump didn't like it, and killed the Golden Goose

A Sandhill Crane colt that was just fed a juicy caterpillar from one of the parents. This young one is a few days old. Taken with a 600mm lens and cropped.

OTP-2 has 2 different kinds of thrusters... perhaps they've tested one of them briefly? celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen...

The Leader of the Free World meets with Donald Trump

I'm hoping to see the SMA - Semi-Major Axis (in other words, the height of an orbit) of this tiny satellite go UP without the use of propellant sometime later this year. celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen...

I’m old enough to remember the First Amendment, rule of law, and Legislative Branch.

This is a quite interesting idea to me... having worked with taking images from multiple locations to align them.... I can see how this technique might actually be brought into the real world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-b5...

Dan is full of wisdom... I always watch any new video from him as soon as possible. This one did not disappoint www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZj...

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

When old Soviet Union jokes are applicable to the US, you know something has gone terribly wrong.