Mixed weird feelings over the last few days; I ended up shutting down the electronics meetup that I hosted for nearly 2 years.
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After watching a CuriousMarc’s series of videos restoring a Model 19 Teletype on Youtube, I HAD to have one. As someone who has an unexplained penchant for vintage stuff, technology, and steampunk (like?) aesthetics, this not only checks the boxes, it hammers them home!
Continue reading “Grail Acquired: Teletype Model 19”Life goes on during a Pandemic
I figured I’d post up a personal update, as opposed to more Franklin Institute pictures or may latest nerdy adventures.
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Got in a few more Franklin Institute cards today. These appear to be from the 60s. I found these interesting as you contrast what the place looks like today.
Historic Church in Chester, PA Burns
I’m really bummed about this; a while back a buddy of mine, who’s family is part of the Chester Historical Society, mentioned that the society took ownership of a very old and historic Presbyterian church in Chester. As such, we went to the church to help them start to clean it up as well as look around and get a bunch of pictures of the building, noting issues that would need to be addressed and so on.
4 years later, on May 27th 2020, the church burned to the ground.
Continue reading “Historic Church in Chester, PA Burns”Microsoft Teams and the Missing Teams Meeting Outlook Addin
With the ongoing pandemic, the last thing we want is more software glitches to deal with. In my case, I had to set up a number of new systems for new users, and naturally on the last few, just happened to notice that in Outlook, the Teams addin didn’t seem to be loading.
Notably, I didn’t see the big purple “New Teams Meeting” button under the Calendar function in Outlook.
Added a “Radio” page to Junknet.net
I figured it was only appropriate that I add an actual radio page to my Junknet.net web site here. While a majority of what I put up here is in the blog area, there are times where I’d like to be able to refer to a few things from time to time and have a few “static” pages in place.
As such, “The Radio Page” is born! Not much there yet, but I can only type like 600 words a minute, give me a chance to build it out! At least it does explain how I got into radio.
Have fun and 73s!
(PS – Yes I know 73 does not have to be plural, but you can bet your a$$ I love the idea of saying “bestestest wisheses!”
Franklin Institute W3TKQ Station – 1990s to 2002
As I mentioned in a previous post, a lot of my Franklin Institute… obsession?…is related to what used to be called the “Futures Center”; a massive addition to the Franklin Institute in the early 1990s that not only added on a large portion of the building, but filled it with all things modern, like computers, virtual reality, automation, space, and so on.
Continue reading “Franklin Institute W3TKQ Station – 1990s to 2002”Franklin Institute W3TKQ Amateur Radio Station Updated in 1962 (With Sound!!)
You may recall a previous post HERE where I show an original QST card from the original W3TKQ ham radio station, located in the Franklin Institute in 1958.
Well as all things go with technology, the station needed an update after a few years, and in May 1962, Dr. Wynn Laurence LePage, W3QCV, then president of the Franklin Institute, introduced a new, updated W3TKQ station…
Continue reading “Franklin Institute W3TKQ Amateur Radio Station Updated in 1962 (With Sound!!)”Ever see the inside of an Apple Watch?
I was cleaning up my office recently and came across something I totally forgot about: my trashed Apple Watch.
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