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06/21/2011 | The Amateur Amateur: Cablegrim

The cables are out to get me, there’s no doubt about it. I should have known as soon as my first DB9 serial to USB cable went sour on me. I attributed the problem to a nearby lightning strike, which did indeed scramble a number of my electronic devices. B
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05/01/2010 | The Amateur Amateur: Not Exactly Plug-And-Play

I often hear people say, “Oh yes, I know how to program a computer”, when what they really mean is that they know how to invoke some esoteric feature of Excel or Word. As a software professional, I do not consider that sort of ability to be anything remot
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04/27/2009 | The Amateur Amateur: Packet, Part II

I ended my last column by saying that I had purchased an Alinco DR-135 transceiver with a built-in TNC (Terminal Node Control, in this case a Tasco Radio Modem) and that all of my difficulties with packet radio had disappeared. Oh boy. Was that ever an op
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