Recent content by UrbanFarmEngineer

Took a walk around the block today and found a neighbor on the street behind mine who has something that looks like this: It looks new and well-maintained. Hoping it's a HAM. Gonna head over tomorrow with some sort of freshly baked sweet thingy and try to make friends hoping that he will be...

Awesome thank you for this. Perfect: "Rf Circuit Design" is exactly what I am looking for!

Awesome thanks! THis is A LOT of good info. I WISH that BooksGoat shipped to Canada. That is the best price. Thanks for taking the time to post all of the leads.

I didn't introduce them to it until recently when I started getting into it. SO it was all my fault. So how did you start out as a kid? What were your first projects?

UPDATE: 1) After trying out a few SA's I found one that I like and that is suited to my basic needs. Thank you @Baluncore for recommending an SDR. 2) Learning to use it: as mentioned before I am not an EE by training but I am passionate about certain aspects EE. I am pretty sure that the...

Good point. I will have to learn how to use my new miniSA and then I will have more details.

No. I just want a good comprehensive primer on the subject of filters and ferrites. I am trying to learn. That is all.

I have no earth-shattering news other than the thing I already mentioned about tinfoil hats and aliens. I just want to learn how to use and optimize filters and ferrites. Somebody help me! lol Just point me in the direction of a book or a manual that includes the principles of how it works...

I just used chicken wire to test how much is coming from outside. I didint leave it up. Also I didn't know the frequency at that time. @Averagesupernova Help me understand: I am getting FM frequency and so much of it goes away when I shield ... so is this just a radio station? I think that I...

That is so wrong! The tin foil hats aren't grounded so the mind control is still happening... they just WANT you to think that the tin foil hats work. Be careful out there. Roof is made from standard material wooden frame and shingles. There are a lot of wires that run up in the attic and at...

In summary: ...just to take the heat of the HAMs as I mentioned above it is mostly my next door neighbors who rent their house to IT guys in their 20s who have just about every kind of transmitting device, in addition to the actual house having electrical problems. Have had some neighborly...

Totally Agree. If you want to ask them anything they are overly enthusiastic to help and extremely knowledgeable. From an Asperger it is awesome to see someone else obsessed and in love with their technical hobby as we Aspies get with ours.

HAMs have been the most help so far... the ARRL have entire books on this subject and HAMs are super into their hobby so when you wanna talk about it with them they are super enthusiastic and forthcoming with accurate and researched information. I really should look for local HAMs

I guess they use tinfoil hats to turn themselves into walking human antennas so they can receive the secret messages from the aliens. Too bad they don't know that the aliens aren't real and that the secret messages are actually coming from rogue CIA agents with transmitting chips in their...

Sure let me type up the list of issues I've identified. Just give me a day or so...