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SolderSmoke Daily News
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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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