Electronics

Grand knows his stuff – thank you, Sir! More flux did the trick.

The tip of the soldering iron I tried to use is too big - it bridges all five wires at once.

And before that, they used logarithms which, as it happens, are the basis for slide rules and, later, some of the parts in analog computers.

I’m shifting to an Android tablet, the Insignia Flex (NS-13T001) from Best Buy for $249 and tax.

Provided with equipment, space and operating expenses by the National Security Agency (NSA), the museum is immediately next to NSA’s headquarters in Ft Meade Maryland.

In the previous sections, we eavesdropped on a live conversation between two ham stations, one in Windsor Ontario and the other in Venezuela on the northern coast of South America.

In the first part of this post, we had a quick look at a conversation taking place between ham radio stations in Ontario Canada and Venezuela where I just happened to be in the right place, Phoenix Arizona, to “hear” both of them.