SolderSmoke#15 - "First Light" "The Dish"

SolderSmoke is mostly about homebrew electronic projects, but we often
drift into amateur astronomy. We did a lot of such drifiting in the
latest edition:

SolderSmoke!
A SHOW FOR ELECTRONICS HOMEBREWERS!

http://www.ourmedia.org/node/161919

Topics discussed in SolderSmoke 15:

--Speech processing in QRP rigs
--Homebrew time domain reflectometer
--DC-DC converter for Elecraft rig
--Mars with the new Dobsonian-Newtonian
--Following Jupiter's moons, Saturn's rings
--SuitSat
--1st SolderSmoke movie review: "The Dish"
--Geek dream job: Telescope night assistant
--1st SolderSmoke book review: "First Light"

Listen at: http://www.ourmedia.org/node/161919

Background:
Tired of listening to Led Zepplin or NPR on your
I-Pod? Wouldn't you like to be able to carry with
you the kinds of ham radio conversations that you
listen to while in your radio shack?
Mike, KL7R, in Juneau, Alaska, and Bill, M0HBR, in
London, England meet regularly on the ECHOLINK system
to discuss their homebrew radio projects. We are
making them available as PODCASTS.

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to some of the sites and documents we've been
discussing: http://www.ourmedia.org/user/36170

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73 from London
Bill M0HBR N2CQR CU2JL
http://www.qsl.net/n2cqr