As it turns out, just like in audio engineering, in 2-way radio you can’t just look at the power meter and assume your signal is great. It might actually be unintelligible. Back in my early days (6 months ago), I noticed that my RF power meter seldom hit 100W on voice. I know that the …
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Past TI 99/4A, Present Foray
My current project is one of steep learning curves, long memories, and hours of waiting and iterations. Back in high school, I had a TI 99/4A personal computer. We were too poor for the disk drive modules, so I had to store my programs on cassette tapes. I spent a lot of my time working …
Crystal Clear
I suppose the downside to using FLAC as a codec for storing your music is that the file sizes are much, much larger than MP3. Based on my current statistics, each album will average around 340MB on disk, which seems like a lot but it’s not bad considering the Red Book Standard for CDs declares …
Catching FLAC
Last weekend, I began the slow, arduous process of re-ripping my entire CD collection into files easily playable on my computer. This time, instead of ripping into 192kbit MP3 with the LAME codec (like I did last time), I’m ripping them into FLAC. This has important implications. First and foremost is that FLAC is lossless, …