Radio, Tech, and Art
I ll keep this one short and sweet. I mostly want to keep some pictures here. This is a site owned and operated by Scott Scarborough (Showcasesound.com). Located atop a grain silo, this is a roughly 1.5-2kW 4-bay FM transmitter. Here s a view of the grain silo that the antenna is on. The astounding views from [ ]
Thanks to Ray and Bill over at Cumulus Media I was given the opportunity to come see another one of Colorado s most prolific broadcast transmitter sites. This is a 40+ acre antenna farm up at over 9,500ft on Cheyenne Mtn. Colorado Springs. Yes, the one on top of NORAD. This massive complex is home to [ ]
Ray Uberecken, broadcast engineer for the local Cumulus Media branch was kind enough to show me around the site for the KVOR AM transmitter located in Black Forest northeast of Colorado Springs, CO. This was a fascinating trip that taught me a lot about the trials and tribulations of running a true broadcast radio station. [ ]
This year Clayton Argilo Smith offered me an opportunity to provide one of the challenges for the GRCon capture the flag event (CTF). I was quite eager to do this since we had recently finished implementing a multitude of changes to the gr-nrsc5 transmitter and nrsc5 receiver. And by We, I really mean mostly Clayton, [ ]
you hurt me? I don t care. That used to be my modus operandi. In my formative years it was the most effective defense mechanism I could devise. Since especially as a child, there s little real option for recourse or retaliation against adults. This was and honestly still is an effective way of handling aspersions cast [ ]
This was my little weekend project to re-design and re-build myself a new box to allow automatic switching and sharing of my antennas between my HAM rigs and my SDRs. There already exist several such boxes that can be readily found from the likes of MFJ, ham stores, or noname sellers on ebay. Unfortunately, none [ ]
There was an earth-moon-earth contest at the Haswell, CO site run by the Deep Space Exploration Society. This was a contest involving bouncing signals off the moon and making contacts with other people doing the same thing. Very cool! First time I got to hear my own echo come back off the moon. They ran [ ]
Do not look back into that cerulean deep. For if you do, the pain will be too great. There is little comfort to be found in the past. An embrace lost cannot hold you again. An ember gone cold will not warm you. Stay the course. Seek instead the light of sunrise on the horizon. [ ]
Just trying this thing out. Here s my yet-to-be-used QSL card. Maybe you could find yourself lucky enough one day to get one from me 😉