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April 1, 2021April 1, 2021 kg4cyxLeave a comment

This is several kilobucks worth of hardware that was misapplied to create a special filter that…. nothing would pass. See if you can spot the issue!

Our IT director dropped a non working Wyse serial terminal on my bench. I don’t think he expected me to tear it open and try to fix it, I think it has an open diode or bad cap in the +5v supply. It’s gonna be the serial console for a Linux machine if I can get it glowing.

And then I was asked to come on Good Day, pose dramatically on a giant shoe, and discuss the a ridiculous goth house. Just because.

Various colorized views of an old Midland radio made by Hitachi Denshi

This has been a elliptically polarized shitpost.

Do the Ultra High Frequency Wave

March 20, 2021March 20, 2021 kg4cyxLeave a comment

Unleash the friendly yet unmistakably dark magic!

Yeah, I was down at the tower again. 😀

Phrase I never thought I’d have to use: “ieee-488 / GPIB interface on the digital TV exciter”

Oh hi there

March 12, 2021March 12, 2021 kg4cyxLeave a comment

Mutual boop!!

Choco-Derp

A wonderful “The Emperor’s New Groove” meme that Facezuck banned as spam

I’m sure there’s a way that these are installed to the grounding system normally. This certainly is a way. I’m not sure if it’s a good one, but it’s certainly a way.

My advice on how to program one of these drives: ensure that programming one of these drives is a task scheduled for when you’re vacationing entirely off grid in another state

One of these days I’ll figure out how to change the vertical scale on this thing. It’s easy on the FSH3, highly… elusive… on the FSL… Though it will automatically change when you switch to OBW measurement… ??

I dunno… 73 and good night. Just felt like posting nonsense.

visualizing data, irritatingly

March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 kg4cyxLeave a comment

Which looks sillier to an uninitiated observer, the results of this butt-dial Google search or my mess of a DMR radio codeplug?

In other news, buzzard puke alert! Changing the “Radio IP Address” field in Motorola TRBO CPS is not how you change the repeater’s Ethernet IP, it’s just how you get it to throw blank error messages with no explanation. Well that’s a solid block of fnord.

You just broadcasted cringe!

March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 kg4cyx1 Comment

Yesterday I noticed while at the hall of suds that CNN was kinda awkwardly taking someone else’s network feed from the CPAC conference* to air leading to a kinda Dueling Chyrons situation.

Given a little more thought, I don’t blame them, would YOU want to attend that crap? I’m pretty sure among other things it’s an absolutely guaranteed COVID-19 superspreader event, but then it’s… just ew.

* pure uncut cringe.

Anyway let’s just continue shitposting things

Can you just lob these filthy things in the wash? I wish.

Nice

grumble grumble blower vfd not configured to automatically ride through and restart after power glitch grumble

In other news, Fry’s Electronics finally ditched.

February 24, 2021February 24, 2021 kg4cyxLeave a comment

It doesn’t work, we have no idea why.

It works, we have no idea why.

Shitpost #3141592

February 20, 2021February 20, 2021 kg4cyxLeave a comment

In honor of whoever the holder of mysterious Dogecoin whale account is having made deposits of 420, 69, 420.69, and 3.141592 coins just to show off. (who the hell are you?)