In 1974 I was employed as a maintenance Technician at North Sydney Technical College at their TV studio. The studio was used for the training of students working at the various TV stations around Sydney in all aspects of TV operations and maintenance. One of the technical lecturers from the college had recently taken up […]
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Author: Gary Gibson
The S Meter Standard VK8BN/VK2DBN
How accurate are those S meter reports we are given?Do S meters accurately report our signal strength, or are S meters just guess meters? In the early days every manufacturer seemed to have their own standard. In 1954 the Boonton Radio Corporation published an article in “THE NOTEBOOK” Fall 1954 Number 3 an article titled […]
Environmentalism as Religion
The closing words: ” So it’s time to abandon the religion of environmentalism, and return to the science of environmentalism, and base our public policy decisions firmly on that.” In 2003 Michael Crichton sent environmentalists into a rage when he exposed them as nothing more than another religion. He was able to get away with […]