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Podcast: The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
Episode:

#613 – It’s a Keyzermas Miracle!

Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 01:44:55
Publish Date: 2022-12-19 02:18:32
Description:

Merry Keyzermas, 2022! Jeff Keyzer of Mightohm.com joins the show once again.

  • Jeff has been at his place in Seattle since 2018
  • Previously when he was in Redmond, he put his antenna up in the trees
  • This year Jeff set up antennas at his new place
  • New things in Amateur radio, SDRs
  • ICOM IC705 portable
  • Sunspot cycles impact how far you can communicate
  • 5-10 watts in the backyard
  • Taking ham radio setup camping
  • Crater lake
  • Goldeneye antenna coming out of a lake (Aricibo, now busted)
  • Cape Disappointment
  • Parks on the Air
  • “2022…which is this year”
  • Long Beach Washington kite festival
  • Jeff put an antenna on a kite
  • Doers vs talking in amateur radio
  • FT8 mode
  • QRZ.com
  • IC7300 brought people back
  • Alan Wolke YouTube channel
  • Jeff hasn’t been doing much consulting
  • Kit business gangbusters because of Ukraine
  • Atmel DIP parts are easier to get than other Atmel parts (but still not easy)
  • Eurorack companies closing
  • Test equipment upgrade
  • 8753D
  • Agilent took down legacy resources
  • Fixing test equipment as a way to learn
  • 53310A
  • Can’t just get a piece of test equipment on a whim
  • GPS connected to MDA can get parts per billion (!)
  • Plot frequency vs time
  • Saluki
  • Fusion news
  • Hotplate vs oven for reflow
  • Making generated art (couldn’t pass up the Clark Griswold reference, sorry)
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