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Amateur Radio

W4IDO’s Portable Station

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A large toolbox with an amateur radio (Kenwood TM-V7A) mounted inside.I was tasked with figuring out a better way to operate a portable Amateur Radio station for a local Club. The normal mission assignment for this station would be as a net control station or Continue reading W4IDO’s Portable Station →

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Reenactment

Forge setup and overview

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Some naming conventions, a “forge” is the place where the fire is, while a “Forge” is the shop where the blacksmith works.

I’ve gone through a few different setups for my Forge over the years. I also have a challenge or two since I take the whole thing on the road now and again for public demos.The Forge, in the foreground an anvil rests on a stump, a propane forge glows in the background to the left, and a workbench is across the background strewn with tools.

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Science

Transit of Venus

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We had planned on attending a local viewing of the transit at one of the local colleges but they were socked in with clouds and were only going to show the nasa video feed. I can do that at home, what I wanted to see was the actual transit from my location, or at least as much of it as possible since the final hours would occur after sunset for our side of earth.

Geof using a netbook while in the background a telescope projects an image of the sun on a piece of white posterboard.
Geof streaming the NASA Edge broadcast and using twitter on the netbook while the telescope projects an image of the sun on a piece of white posterboard.

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