Travesty. I found the “video images” track from the Voyager Golden Disk on archive.org, officially from NASA. Was thinking about writing software to decode it to get the source images. Y’know, as an exercise. However, on closer inspection, it sounds like it has been intentionally denatured with a chorus and delay to keep it from …
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I used to laugh at people who brought laptops to cafes, because cafes are where you go to read papers and socialize and play board games, right? And then I starting bringing a laptop to cafes. I used to laugh at people who carried a tablet computer with a detached keyboard to cafes, because if …
Licensed
Good news is good news: This morning, I took my Technician Class license test for amateur radio and passed. Out of the 35 questions on the exam, I missed 1 question (I bet it was that question about transmitting in international waters). So yeah, I passed! The examiners gave everyone in the test session the …
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In college, I played “Hexxen” on my friends’ computers (“Hexxen” was technologically between “Doom” and “Duke Nukem 3D”). But, instead of playing the game to win, I would end up wandering around the world and following the various environmental elements, such as the random autumn leaf blowing around, until that graphical sprite no longer existed. …
First Listen with KD5RCA
This weekend, I had my first experience with a VHF repeater. Looked up the repeater operated by the Four States Amateur Radio Club in Texarkana at 146.620 MHz. Didn’t make any contacts (because I don’t have a license, obviously), but I did get to hear some actual chatter and get a better sense for the …