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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor
February 24, 2006
This week, Surfin' mixes quantity with quality and suggests some pertinent and semi-pertinent web sites for the radio amateur.
I have a number of short bits to write about this week. (Add up all the short bits and before you know it, you run out of space!)
 Technical Books Online is one of the variety of web pages Surfin' visits this week. |
Public Domain Books
Technical Books Online is a web page containing books published before 1964. These books are now in the public domain because their copyrights have expired and not been renewed. Some of the books are Amateur Radio books and many are radio related.
The books are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. However, beware: some of the book files are very large and so noted with cautions in red. If you are on dialup, start downloading and go to bed.
On the Make Blog
Incidentally, I found the tip about the online technical books on Make Blog at MakeZine.com, which I read everyday. Make Blog always has something interesting that you can make and/or use and sometimes their projects are applicable to Amateur Radio. For example, one of items in today's Make Blog is "Make your own sites, with Google pages... Google just launched a new 'build your own website' service - Google pages. You get 100mb and it seems like unlimited bandwidth..." If you always wanted to have your own ham radio web site, this might be the way to go.
By the time you read this, the "Make your own sites" item is probably gone from the Make Blog home page, but is still accessible by clicking on the "More Posts" link at the bottom of the page or the "View the complete list of posts in our archive" link on the next page.
LEGO Electronics Revisited
Last week's Surfin' about LEGO electronics mentioned the German web page LegoElektronikExperimentierKasten. Well, Rick Lindquist, N1RL, at ARRL Headquarters, passed along an e-mail that Brian Warn, KD7TAE, sent to ARRL in Newington. In the e-mail, Brian wrote, "The page can be rendered from German to English using Google's translation services. The translation isn't perfect, but it does the job."
Surfin' Comments and Updates
By the way, the update about the German translation service appeared as a comment on my blog where Surfin' readers can add comments and updates about what appears here. The blog is seeing more and more usage by Surfin' readers, so please feel free to add your comments. Also, an index of all past Surfin' columns is accessible from my blog.
Until next time, keep on surfin'.
Editor's note: Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU,
likes it short and sweet and to the point! To not mince words, contact Stan by
e-mailing him or adding comments to his blog.
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