I own an Acer laptop and I needed a wireless mouse with it. I do not like the scroll pad. I recently bought the Logitech Wireless Mouse M310 (Silver).  I know, it’s just a mouse. Anyways, it looks nice and it works. It works well. Logitech is a company that has grown in the last […]

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Forget about these new smartwatches that track bodily functions and give boring details that I don’t have any desire for. I just want an atomic digital wristwatch that keeps solid time and is accurate. It would be nice if it announced it upon being prompted. My atomic watch should give me UTC time. This one […]

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Just imagine all of the radio frequencies that surround us as we step into our backyards. What if there was a way to capture those signals and turn them into electricity? Some scientists have designed a new gadget that proposes to generate electricity from captured microwave signals. Allen Hawkes and Alexander Katko are those scientists. […]

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In the not-so-distant past, satellites had to be worked with the use of cumbersome equipment such as satellite dishes and so forth. Fast forward into the future and now the military can access satellites with only a handheld. Satellite communication ((SATCOM)) with the handheld transmitter is now a reality. Communications satellites are used for military […]

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If you were listening to HF radio on September 10, 2014, you would have discovered that the bands dropped out completely for several minutes. At 1:45 p.m. EDT (1745 GMT) on Wednesday, a major solar flare disrupted radio communications. Aurora watchers in the northern U.S. should be looking for possible activity both Thursday and Friday […]

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It’s unofficial, but it is believed that Microsoft Service Pack 4 has been launched. This must be a big relief to the many fans of Windows XP that have not upgraded to a newer version. Even though Windows XP support has ended, Windows XP is just too popular to go away. Consider all of those […]

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Director 975/F Full Wave Driven Element 1005/F Reflector 1030/F Spreaders A2 + B2 = C2 Polarization Fed on the side = Vertical polarization (VHF) Fed on the bottom = Horizontal polarization (HF) Matching Stub (75 Ohms) 984/F x Velocity Factor divided by 4 Calculator Cubical Quad Antenna Calculator (Will include spacing) Note A cubical quad […]

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The YAESU FT-991 transceiver is displayed at the Ham Fair Tokyo in 2014.

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The Extended Double Zepp (EDZ) Antenna 20 Meters Leg: 44 feet          Leg: 44 feet [————————————]       [————————————] |       | |       | |       | |       | Stub: 9 feet 6 inches (450 Ohm Ladder Line) |      | |      | |      | Coax to transmitter (50 Ohm any length) It’s Time To Install The 20 Meter EDZ […]

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I have a 32-inch Samsung flat screen TV that plays well and has great color in the picture. The speakers in the television are adequate but I want a little more audio. I just like the big sound, something more of a studio quality. This is my first LED TV so I’m getting used to […]

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