Myself, as seen by René
Magritte
Melba,
my
othergirlfriend
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I traveled on US50,32 and historic US Route 66 to California, then across the desert and mountains to San Diego via various state and county roads. It was a great way to spend five weeks and a unique way to see America! I averaged 90 miles per day, one flat tyre (sic) every 3 days and had to replace one tyre. The weather was generally good, with the occasional drizzly day. A cold snap descended on Texas but didn't give me any trouble. Several very windy days in New Mexico however, did make going quite tough.
I've written a few notes and thoughts on the trip or if you're interested in the gory details, you can read the daily diary.
You can also view a selection of photographs that I took along the way.
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Edwin
Howard Armstrong,who's
engineering
genius gave us the regenerative receiver, continuous wave oscillator,
and
super-heterodyne circuit, committed suicide twenty three years to the
day
after patenting his most famous invention, wide band frequency
modulation.
Although
Armstrong the man is gone, his ideas live on - embedded into every
piece
of communications electronics built today. You need only read the
landmark
1936 paper on FM to see what a visionary he was. It has lost no
significance
in the 60 plus years since it was written.
I've
scanned, and converted to PDF
(Portable
Document Format) Armstrong's paper. Click here to download A
Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of
Frequency
Modulation". It was published in the "Proceedings of the Institute
of Radio Engineers",May 1936, Volume 24 No. 5.
Robert Watson-Watt, Arnold Wilkins
and others at the National Physical Laboratory developed the first operational radar, the 'Chain Home'.
A paper in the GEC Journal of Research Vol. 3 No2 1985 by B. T. Neale describes this in detail. Click here to download "CH - The First Operational Radar".
Just when you thought Oprah was cornering the market.....the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has decided to recognize my television engineering work. I shared two 1995 Sports Emmys for Innovative Technical Achievement, ('Point of View' Technology), and Technical Team Remote with my colleagues at Broadcast Sports Technology and ESPN.
My other Emmys were awarded in 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1994 (two).
.....and in a related item: Wanted to buy - a much larger mantelpiece.
The program was written by Michael (NV3Z) and Joe (NA3T) and was described in a paper presented at the 1994 Central States VHF conference.
For a tour of it's capabilities visit the azproj home page at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml.
For more information on az_proj, e-mail Joe at
mack@ncifcrf.gov
( NV3Z + NA3T's efforts on 2 meters in the June VHF QSO party )
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