lowleveldrone

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by lowleveldrone 8y ago
In a radio, this is done by a mixer circuit, for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_cell
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by lowleveldrone 9y ago
North American birds are absolutely in decline. From this article [1], the overall population has decreased by about 1.5 billion birds since 1970. For some groups of species, for instance, aerial insectivores [2], things are much worse. For
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by lowleveldrone 9y ago
For me it's a "hello world" for experimenting with building VHF antennas. It's nice, because they are on a schedule that you can plan around and more interesting than listening to the local dispatch systems.
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by lowleveldrone 9y ago
For what it's worth, you can get very good reception from NOAA satellites using a much simpler antenna: http://www.rtl-sdr.com/simple-noaameteor-weather-satellite-a... Said from experience of having built something mor
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by lowleveldrone 10y ago
Dogs can be trained ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Terrier ) to kill rats in a much more controlled fashion than having free range cats wandering around.
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by lowleveldrone 10y ago
There are over 250 species of bird present for at least part of the year in the city where I live, which has a population of 880000.
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by lowleveldrone 10y ago
It happened to me. A TV intended for someone else ended up at my front door, and I had to chase the delivery guy down. Not even the correct street. It was shipped from Walmart, no signature required.
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by lowleveldrone 10y ago
I just tried publishing my first app to the Play store and am in the middle of a horrible experience. I wrote a little app to help myself learn birdsong. You copy some mp3s to a folder on your sdcard, open the folder in the app, and it will
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by lowleveldrone 11y ago
It appears relatively few are establishing their own practices because the income from a private practice is very uncertain. It also looks like demand for lawyer related services has also decreased. The larger firms have responded to this b
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by lowleveldrone 11y ago
Psychology is a very broad area and it's not fair to judge it based upon Dr. Phil style counselling or literary criticism. The psychologists I've worked with design experiments to attempt to determine fundamental mental capabiliti
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by lowleveldrone 12y ago
This really should never happen, but sadly has happened before - famously to Maher Arar, a dual-Syrian/Canadian citizen who was detained in the US and then sent to Syria to be tortured (rather than returned to Canada, his destination)
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by lowleveldrone 12y ago
The City of Ottawa blames geese for E. coli despite routinely dumping raw sewage into the Ottawa river due to linked storm and sanitary sewers. The beaches are closed after significant rain storms.