I'm glad this site is still up as I haven't looked at it in many years. I used to be based out of W32, Hyde Field and got out during the sale/bankruptcy a few years ago. The recent photos of the place there do a good job capturing the scene of decay. It had essentially no online presence, but there was an active and very good aircraft maintenance shop there until the end. https://airfields-freeman.com/MD/Airfields_MD_PG_S.htm

Thanks for sharing! What was your role at Hyde Field?

I rented a hangar there

Finally! The stuff has been used in Europe for years now. Here's an article about from 2024 https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/18/1251919...

That's pretty clever. I've never used the G90, but apparently newer firmware improves the CW performance. The CW mode seems like almost an afterthought with that company.

It's too bad. It's a good mode for low power.

Every time I hear about Earth-Moon-Earth moonbounce comms, I think of this classic reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/8lpk45/commen...

Yeah, this stuff goes way back. My great-great-uncle Adelmo Landini, who had worked with Marconi, was already doing it (I think there used to be a patent somewhere).

phased array is better than whatever that guy was doing!

MoonRF mostly takes care of the hardware and pointing, and then the fun is playing with software and signal processing: https://github.com/open-space-sdr/main

That post is truly hilarious though. If everyone talked like that on the nets, the hobby would surely grow a lot faster.

:DDD

I wish automobile manufacturers would take this to heart.

"Are your legs so long you have to sit with your knees pressed against the back of the seat in front of you or something? If so I suppose that's understandable."

Yes and also for people with long legs, seated in a typical airline seat, their knees will be significantly higher than the top of the seat cushion. So, they get caught up in the sweep of a reclining seatback ahead.

That's pretty neat. It's a little oblique to your project, but you might be interested in the QSL bureau system https://www.iaru.org/on-the-air/qsl-bureau/

Huh, I never heard that one. Extra gets you more frequency privileges (nice not having to worry so much about band edges) but IMO the real benefit is being able to enjoy reciprocal operating under CEPT when traveling abroad.

You can operate abroad with General in most countries.

I called CQ for a bit but nobody on at the time seemed to know Morse. Neat idea though, and with the different tones for different users it would be possible to overcome the background noise of people playing around.

A book on the subject came out earlier this year that I've been wanting to read, "Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves" by Nicola Twilley

check out Bill Bryson’s “at home” if you’re looking for something a little less specific to refrigeration and more fun narration of similar novel life/home inventions. To give a sense of depth, refrigeration is probably a few pages. It’s very high level but a fun read about things you’ve forgotten to think about around the house

Yes! I enjoyed that book