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Benchmarking my PC

My PC is a horrible gaming machine but an excellent desktop and a decent workstation! Of course, it never was supposed to be a gaming PC, so that’s OK. I used the download from https://www.userbenchmark.com UserBenchmarks: Game 42%, Desk 113%, Work 75% CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K – 87.3% GPU: Nvidia GTX 950 – 34.4% SSD: Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB – 241.8% SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 500GB – 132% USB:…

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Trying SMD

So I’m sourcing all the parts to build something small. . . .need a better soldering iron!

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Busy, busy, busy. . .

Busy, busy, busy. . .

Wow, it’s been 2 months since my last confession! Yes. . .busy, busy, busy. Between work and work and work, there’s barely anytime to work. Just look at this mess on my workbench. Every time I set out to clean and organize the bench, I get caught up in a software issue or a capacitor replacement or a programming problem or the washer blowing a circuit board. Like Gilda Radnerso profoundly…

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SMD Breadboarding

So I watched Dave Jones’ EEVblog #555 video – 555Timer Kit where he puts together a kit of resistors, NPN and PNP transistors that recreates the famous 555 Timer integrated circuit in a large scale. It was interesting and nostalgic because everyone starting in electronics plays with a 555. So I figured I might go down to the bench, look up a circuit and try something new. . . .especially since…

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ARRL DX SSB 2014 Fun and Earache

DX contest fun and earache! Is it really necessary to tune up in the middle of a pileup? #hamradio

I was active this weekend in this year’s ARRL DX single-sidebandcontest. . . . .well at least active for me. I’m not a hardcore contester, but besides meals and sleep and a few hours of TV with the XYL, (wife for you non-hams),  I was pretty much listening and sitting at pile-ups waiting for the big boys to clear out. Patience had its rewards! I worked 22 new countries and 61 new prefixes over…

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Test Lead Snarl

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My-oh-my I was inundated with technology . . . .

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Dead End PC?

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