swalberg

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My domain is ertw.com. My user name is sean
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Comment · 1 month ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICDRBVaH6Rc is an earworm of a song exactly about this.
Comment · 3 months ago
Would something like this work at much lower frequencies? Being able to see RF at 3-30MHz would be fantastic for hunting RFI in the amateur radio HF bands.
Comment · 4 months ago
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Comment · 6 months ago
GUE Fundies is on my bucket list. I don't think I'd be interested in cave diving or deep stuff where I need helium, but the level of skill that tech divers show is something I want to be able to do.
Comment · 11 months ago
Father of 3 here, first two were home births, the third had complications and ended up being a hospital birth. I was initially skeptical for the same reasons but the first meeting with the midwife convinced me that they were taking every precaution and had the training to deal with whatever might come up.

The majority of births are simple if you let them be and the midwives go to great lengths to make sure the conditions are right for a successful event. In the case of our third we hit some conditions leading up to the delivery date that disqualified us for a home birth so we seamlessly transitioned into the hospital system (where the midwife still delivered the baby)

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
The meteors leave a tail of ionized particles that people on the ground can bounce RF off of. Ham radio operators use this, e.g. the MSK-144 mode. Pretty cool to hear/see signals and know they were bounced off the tail of a meteor!
Comment · 1 year ago
My first celebrity crush as a kid. She's also in _Revenge of the Nerds_. Those two movies made young-me think that being a geek could be cool.
Comment · 1 year ago
The NFL passes net income back to the team owners. The taxation is generally the owner's problem.
Comment · 1 year ago
I didn't realize they licensed private tour guides. My son's scout troop went to Gettysburg and joined one of the NPS tours. The guy kept a whole lot of teenaged boys engaged and interested for what was at least 2 hours and several miles of walking. I've been on tours of other Civil War sites and that was by far the best.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
How are the ergonomics of that key? Between the switch with the spring and having to hold that in your hand to use, I'm wondering how accurate the keying is? One suggestion might be a flat pad with a capacitive switch so you could just tap things out without even moving, but maybe the key works for you.

Either way, a fun idea!

73 de Sean N3RTW

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