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Linux Kernel security developer, working for Microsoft. Also W7TXT. Views are my own.
Topics: #Linux #kernel #security, #amateurradio, #RF, #hamradio, #electronics, #science, #radioastronomy, #physics, #space, #arduino.

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Edited 2 months ago
10 GHz beacon testing around Seattle on the weekend. Frank AG6QV (https://ag6qv.com/Blog/uhrc) was able to receive via reflection from Puget Sound ferries. Now thinking about a proper mobile-mounted setup for quick 2-way contacts.

https://youtube.com/shorts/n0ZXhANwGXc?feature=share

#hamradio #amateurradio #microwave
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Edited 2 months ago
This is bonkers for 6m. It's at the low end of the old VHF analog television channels (#2 in many places).
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6m (50 MHz) FT8 over the past 15 minutes on pskreporter.info, strong TEP (transequatorial propagation)


#vhf #ft8 #hamradio #amateurradio #6m
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Some hours later, got it working. Using the PCB as the temperature sensor, with a k-type thermocouple.
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Calibrating the PID controller of a DIY reflow hot plate. Mistakes were made.
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At Microwave Update in BC (https://www.microwaveupdate.org), one of the vendors had a 170 GHz spectrum analyzer. How is it possible in a device this size? #hamradio #microwave #amateuradio
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Toured the TRIUMF particle accelerator in Vancouver BC, got to stand on top of a cyclotron. The magnetic field was strong enough to prevent paperclips from laying flat. It’s also where they store old focusing magnets (which become radioactive).
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Tweety.
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What am I supposed to do with this? Wrong answers only.
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Imagine being a billionaire and not living in a house like this.
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Really “enjoyed” hand soldering this VSSOP device with 0.5mm pitch. Time to get a hot plate reflow setup.
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Should I install this software?
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Very excited to have a paper published in DUBUS. I’ve been reading this journal for about a decade and never imagined when I started that I’d be published there. The journal is also translated into German (or English) by the editors, as it’s a dual language publication.

#hamradio #amateurradio #microwave
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Edited 7 months ago
“Don’t ask me how I did it I just did it it was hard”. J/K, I will document this properly soon and it’s much simpler and than it looks.
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It feels like cheating to use these pre-cut wire links for soldering (vs. push-in breadboard), but I’m over making these by hand. #amateurradio #hamradio #electronics
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Prototyping a monitor circuit for GaN RF power amplifier devices. This is indicating drain current and heat sink temperature, and can be expanded to other measurements as needed. What started as a ‘simple’ project became an entire side quest. This uses an Arduino Pro Mini, an INA169 current sensor, and a thermistor. Could be done more simply with a PIC but this is what I had. The cheap OLED display self destructed not long after this photo, as I fed it 12v instead of Vcc.
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Got slightly distracted in midjourney.

This is Seattle, Cascadia in 3357, on the 1000th anniversary of The Fault.

Idaho's Mount Mersini-Houghton is in the background. Also notable is the newly refurbished Space Needle Memorial.
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