• [SSDN] A Christmas Story: Mike AA1TJ Builds Receiver for 486 kHz, Liste

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    A Christmas Story: Mike AA1TJ Builds Receiver for 486 kHz, Listens to Fessenden Commemoration

    Posted: 27 Dec 2021 02:31 AM PST http://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-christmas-story-mike-aa1tj-builds.html

    Mike's 486 kHz receiverAs if being able to get home on Christmas Eve 2021
    and then catching the Webb Telescope launch was not enough, Santa had
    another gift for us:  Michael Rainey, AA1TJ, the Homebrew Hero of the
    Hobbit Hole, was back at it, melting solder. Mike threw together a regen receiver that allowed him to receive a transmission commemorating Reginald Fessenden's historic first

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    A Nice Christmas Gift Out of French Guiana -- The Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope

    Posted: 25 Dec 2021 01:31 PM PST http://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-nice-christmas-gift-out-of-french.html

     A nice Christmas present from NASA and ESA on the screen early on
    Christmas morning.  Track Webb Telescope's progress here: https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

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    The (Real) Solar Flare of August 1972 in Cixin Liu's Science Fiction

    Posted: 25 Dec 2021 03:03 PM PST http://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-real-solar-flare-of-august-1972-in.html

     A view of McMath Region 11976 from the Paris Observatory early on 4 August 1972. I have a vivid memory of seeing -- as a kid -- Aurora from our home
    near New York City.  Eric Carlsen, my childhood friend and colleague from
    the Waters Edge Rocket Research Society,  told me his mom had similar memories. A while back I did some Googling and concluded that it had to
    have been the monster solar flare

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