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Merry Keyzermas, 2022! Jeff Keyzer of Mightohm.com joins the show once again.
- Jeff has been at his place in Seattle since 2018
- Previously when he was in Redmond, he put his antenna up in the trees
- This year Jeff set up antennas at his new place
- New things in Amateur radio, SDRs
- ICOM IC705 portable
- Sunspot cycles impact how far you can communicate
- 5-10 watts in the backyard
- Taking ham radio setup camping
- Crater lake
- Goldeneye antenna coming out of a lake (Aricibo, now busted)
- Cape Disappointment
- Parks on the Air
- “2022…which is this year”
- Long Beach Washington kite festival
- Jeff put an antenna on a kite
- Doers vs talking in amateur radio
- FT8 mode
- QRZ.com
- IC7300 brought people back
- Alan Wolke YouTube channel
- Jeff hasn’t been doing much consulting
- Kit business gangbusters because of Ukraine
- Atmel DIP parts are easier to get than other Atmel parts (but still not easy)
- Eurorack companies closing
- Test equipment upgrade
- 8753D
- Agilent took down legacy resources
- Fixing test equipment as a way to learn
- 53310A
- Can’t just get a piece of test equipment on a whim
- GPS connected to MDA can get parts per billion (!)
- Plot frequency vs time
- Saluki
- Fusion news
- Hotplate vs oven for reflow
- Making generated art (couldn’t pass up the Clark Griswold reference, sorry)