paigefault

@papkee.bsky.social

radio engineer and lover of all things telecommunications currently stealing the copper wires out of your walls to build an antenna I also write music sometimes she/her/yote 🏳️‍⚧️ https://linktr.ee/_papkee

you are not, in fact, supposed to be able to pull the connector off the end of a run of heliax with a gentle tug. All fixed up and the antenna actually works now!

A close up view of an RF connector separated from a run of coax after being barely held on by tape and luckA wider view showing the location of the coax atop a 50ft blue wayfinding tower at the Oshkosh AirshowA new coax run installed and secured, with a sunset and planes in the background

hello 👋 i have developed a new tool called blüuümpíi. blüuümpíi will convert every file on your hard drive to a .wav file without asking you, maximize your system volume, and play them on every bluetooth speaker you have ever connected to. if you offer feedback on blüuümpíi i will take legal action

spent two hours with a wrench and a torch to try and figure out why my 6GHz calibration standard was dead. If it wasn't broken before it sure is now. Tiny little ceramic substrate PCB with two carbon traces that combine to make an extremely precise 50Ω load, and now unfortunately in two pieces.

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