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by drmpeg 8y ago
Excellent video describing why losses were so high. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
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by drmpeg 8y ago
I was tangentially involved in the Nexo II launch. Alexandru Csete (author of Gqrx) used my GNU Radio DVB-S2 transmitter code to send live HD video from the rocket. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwSYv8eVQqQ https:/&
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by drmpeg 8y ago
The ARRL did petition the FCC to drop the symbol rate rules in 2013. It was met with tremendous opposition. https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?proceedings_name=RM-...
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by drmpeg 8y ago
Transmit capable SDR's are classified as test equipment and exempt from equipment authorization.
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by drmpeg 8y ago
He's the co-founder and CTO of Amarisoft.
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by drmpeg 8y ago
I'm not sure what British pork pie is like, but one of my ex girlfriends used to make pork pies. They were delicious, but as dense as neutronium and difficult to digest even under ideal conditions.
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by drmpeg 8y ago
Looks like his SSN is crossed out. I was cleaning out some junk in my house and found an old telephone directory from when I worked at a military contractor in the 80's. It had everyones SSN on it. Times have changed.
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by drmpeg 8y ago
When C-Cube Microsystems was acquired by LSI Logic, we all got to keep our e-mail addresses. Early C-Cube employees had first/last name initials as addresses. I ended up with re@lsil.com, which is a pretty sweet e-mail address. Later,
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by drmpeg 8y ago
One night during the drought, I came upon two coyotes killing a cat right in the middle of old Mountain View.
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by drmpeg 9y ago
The Mule should be played by Donald Trump.
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by drmpeg 9y ago
Here's my Silicon Valley routine. Wake up around 1 pm. with slight hangover. Put as much coffee beans into a Mr. Coffee grinder as I can and make a stiff cup of coffee with a 1 cup filter cone. Drink coffee and check the stock market.
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by drmpeg 9y ago
I still have my 1994 looking website on-line. Because of the content, it still averages 310 GB of traffic a month (if I'm to believe awstats). http://www.w6rz.net
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by drmpeg 9y ago
They're not licensing codecs, they're licensing different versions of their software. The HEVC fee is only 20 cents per encoder, but I'll guess those video software options are thousands of dollars each.
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by drmpeg 9y ago
Drawing to go with the quote. https://twitter.com/JessFink/status/955938603921702912
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by drmpeg 9y ago
There's the NASA CubeQuest challenge. Cubesats on the EM-1 mission. https://www.nasa.gov/cubequest/details
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by drmpeg 9y ago
It did however have a pretty strong military presence... The ground communications network for the Air Force DSP satellite program (boost phase missile warning) was built with 80186 processors. The hub routers were multi-processor systems
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by drmpeg 9y ago
Although I very much like hard sci-fi, my favorite this year was the "Broken Earth" trilogy (The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky) from N.K. Jemisin.
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by drmpeg 9y ago
Also sad to see it go. I use it all the time to transfer videos from my Linux workstation.
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by drmpeg 9y ago
"I saw the best minds of our generation writing spam filters." Neal Stephenson Although I like to update the quote to: "I saw the best minds of our generation writing Snapchat filters."
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by drmpeg 9y ago
It won't. No telco in their right mind is going to put ATSC 3.0 capability in their phones. The current ATSC 1.0 has a mobile standard and it went absolutely nowhere because of this same reason.
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by drmpeg 9y ago
SDR has completely changed the landscape. I'm the developer for the digital television component of GNU Radio. There are transmitters for ATSC, DVB-T, DVB-T2, DVB-S, DVB-S2 and cable QAM. Here's a video of DVB-S2 being transmitted
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by drmpeg 9y ago
It's been cracked. Here's a receiver for RTL-SDR. https://github.com/theori-io/nrsc5 And a transmitter for GNU Radio. https://github.com/argilo/gr-nrsc5
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by drmpeg 9y ago
Same here. I just couldn't write software for 8 hours a day and then go home and write software. Now that I'm retired, I've been able to contribute to open source (but at a very leisurely pace).
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by drmpeg 9y ago
1,110km to 1,325km is actually a fairly high orbit. Estimated lifetime is 1000 years.
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by drmpeg 9y ago
Or in gist. For example: https://gist.github.com/drmpeg/31a9a7dd6918856aeb60
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by drmpeg 10y ago
http://www.tvtechnology.com/Portals/0/TVT_20141119-1515.jpg
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by drmpeg 10y ago
Modern day technique with SDR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf2vatqek_o
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by drmpeg 10y ago
Here's more coherent article. http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/a-seti-signal
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by drmpeg 11y ago
https://github.com/gnuradio/volk
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by drmpeg 11y ago
Here in Silicon Valley, it's used by smart meters. All the short duration blips in the waterfall are gas and electricity meters. http://www.w6rz.net/gqrx915.png

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