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yl.beam #72 July 2019

2019-07-032021-06-09

11 mins read

ContentsSilent KeyMay 2019 Exam Results welcomes new YlsYL Inductees, CQ Contest Hall of Fame 2019 Australian YL receives Award Museum…

If you were wondering why your PC is now slower than before…read on.

2019-05-232021-06-09

2 mins read

I noticed yesterday at a client's workshop that the PC now had Mcafee Anti Virus installed. As I had already…

Electronics

What the ‘L’ !!!

2019-05-212021-07-23

1 min read

Does nobody check their copy [on the Internet]?An article I was reading last night was written by Paul O'Sullivan. Quite…

The search for a slashed zero

2019-03-272021-06-09

2 mins read

The session last night was about 'Modulation Methods' and 'Frequency Translation'. So what I wanted to get over to the…

Amateur Radio

Yes! Finally a Geo-Stationary Amateur Radio Satellite

2019-03-192021-07-23

2 mins read

Just saw this on Hackaday. Es’hail-2: Hams Get Their First Geosynchronous Repeater Now where do I get a transmitter for 2.4GHz?…

Curing the network scanning ‘issue’

2018-11-232021-06-09

2 mins read

I used to scan a lot of magazines...It used to be so easy. A simple USB scanner which took its…

So apart from that, how was your week so far?

2018-05-092021-06-09

1 min read

Yikes! That is big! No not my wife saying that. But VLC filled the entire big screen with icon buttons…

Amateur Radio

yl.beam #57 april 2018

2018-04-132021-07-23

11 mins read

ContentsWARO -NZ - THELMA SOUPER MEMORIAL CONTEST Ngaire Jury ZXL2UJT - VHF Contest – New ZealandJa-Well-No-Fine / WRTC test day in…

The most difficult part about the fibre installation was putting the ‘foot’ on the router…

2018-02-152021-06-09

1 min read

I had to put my glasses on when the plastic 'foot' would not engage with the router! The router has…

Amateur Radio

Getting Your BASIC programs to work in 2018 !

2018-01-172021-07-23

3 mins read

Last century it wasn't always that easy to get some BASIC programs to work on the 'new' IBM PC. A…

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yl.beam #72 July 2019

If you were wondering why your PC is now slower than before…read on.

What the ‘L’ !!!

The search for a slashed zero

Yes! Finally a Geo-Stationary Amateur Radio Satellite

Curing the network scanning ‘issue’

So apart from that, how was your week so far?

yl.beam #57 april 2018

The most difficult part about the fibre installation was putting the ‘foot’ on the router…

Getting Your BASIC programs to work in 2018 !

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