Selling Extra Equipment

Update, 5/25/2025:    Active Sale items in RED List of Equipment as I clean house. Make an offer. LP-100A Digital Vector RF wattmeter. Telepost. Nearly new. CMC251 Tektronics 1.3 GHz frequency counter V-650F Hitachi dual-trace oscilloscope. Elderly, but works fine. Original owner. SignaLink USB for PSK; cabled for Elecraft K3. All sorts of new but dated [read the full article…]

Books on my Shelf

Here are some books that I’ve read and found interesting and challenging … Amazon provides the rundown on each.                       The following are my two latest – and current – books:       And here are my first four books written when I was teaching at Bucknell University in the 1980s: [read the full article…]

Book-Signing Event

Will be doing a book-signing event at Otto’s Bookstore http://www.ottobookstore.com/ on Friday evening, 3 July 2015. My book, Say for me Kaddish, and Dave Heyman’s book, Hearts, will be featured. Copies of the books are available now at Otto’s for advance purchase; if you already have the books, bring to the event and we can sign [read the full article…]

Printed Books

As I said in my earlier post, Why and how I got into eBooks, my memoirs became my first eBook … and they’ve been an eBook since then. Meanwhile, I’ve been doing print-on-demand publishing this year at Wilcox Publishing.  It became a case of “the cobbler’s children had no shoes,” and I decided it was time [read the full article…]

Digital Radio

For years – many years – I’ve used CW and SSB as my modes of choice. Well, in the early days it was AM, and from there SSB; I was one of the few kilowatt 40-meter SSB stations on in the mid-to-late ’50s. That was when TVI was a bit of a problem, except that [read the full article…]

AdoptABoxerRescue.com aka AABR

Good memories of one special Boxer, Schnitzel, stay with me. My parents brought her home from a kennel up near Seneca Lake when I was about eight or nine. She was great company on walks and out in the country. Typical Boxer: happy, playful, loyal, loving. And she did NOT like porcupines. You’d think, after [read the full article…]

The Library

Maybe it’s just me, or do all engineers have an affinity for books? If I go into a Barnes & Noble, I’m likely to come out with a book or two. Usually something really cool, like programming or maybe about computers. Sometimes I manage to ask myself if I really need the book: then I [read the full article…]

Why and how I got into eBooks

When I finished writing my engineering memoirs in summer 2010, my first thought was to go back to Prentice Hall. I had written four computer-engineering books for them in the mid-1980s, so they were my first call. That didn’t work out so well: when I talked with my former acquisition editor, his bad news was [read the full article…]