The PERTURBATOR show on Thursday was everything I had hoped for. Everything. The music was phenomenal, and the light show was mind blowing. James Kent definitely takes after the Pink Floyd school of stagecraft: if what you do is mostly pretracked in the studio, then on stage you just have to dazzle ’em with a …
Monthly Archives: April 2019
Sifting, Drifting
I think I’m naturally wired to quickly get bored. The moment I learn a thing, do a thing, go somewhere, get settled in, I look up and around for the next nugget of interest, sifting through the chaos. My hobbies and lifestyle reflect this. When it comes to supporting myself, I’m definitely a factory-worker kind …
Woke Nihilism
On the day of the burning of the Notre Dame cathedral, I was commiserating with a friend at the cafe about the disaster. A real moment. Then another friend sat with us, tuned into our conversation, and brought up the fact that there are so many black churches that have been burned, and that the …
Rebalanced
Took out the drill and did repairs to my 1:1 and 4:1 baluns. Made the holes wide enough and at the 3/4″ centers necessary to accept the banana terminal blocks. Sealed the interface between the case and the block with a flattened piece of Coax-Seal(tm) for water protection. Looks better, and now the terminals won’t …
1:0 Balun
Severe storms and winds this weekend prompted me to take down one of my two antennas for safety. I have a 20m inverted-V dipole with 1/4 wave 300Ω twinlead as the feedline from the center insulator to a 1:1 current balun mounted on my wall (the twinlead is transparent at 20m frequencies). The other antenna …