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 Cog·i·ta·tion [koj-i-tey'-shun]
– noun: Concerted thought or reflection; meditation; contemplation.
Kirt ['kərt ] – proper noun: RF Cafe webmaster.
These articles were originally known as 'Factoids,' but the title was changed
because of the multiple (and sometimes unflattering) definition of the word.
Note: There is also a huge collection of my topical 'Smorgasbord' writings that might
interest you as well.
These original Kirt's Cogitations™ may be reproduced (no more than 5,
please) provided proper credit is given to me, Kirt Blattenberger.
302 - Found: Very
Rare HP 5212A Electronic Counter
301- Vintage
Alliance Model U-100 Tenna-Rotor Installation
300 - Of Zerts, Plenches
and Spunfits
299 - World's
1st Radio Broadcast from a Moving Train
298 -
Daylight
Saving(s) Time vs. Standard Time
297 -
Amateur Radio Call Sign Assignment Investigation
296 - ESD Damage
Control - It's Not Just for Semiconductors Anymore
295 - Farewell and Adieu, H. Ward
Silver
294 -
Edwin H. Armstrong: The Rest of the Story
293 -
60th
Annual "Jamboree on the Air" 1958-2017
292 -
Nikola Tesla in 19th Century Newspapers
291 -
The Great North American Solar Eclipse of 2017
290 -
1st Newspaper Appearance of Transistor Invention Announcement
289 -
Breaking News: The Arctic Icebergs Are Melting - circa 1922!
288 -
MIA: The Other Half of the Antenna and Cable Loss Equation
287 -
A Radio Shack Eulogy
286 -
1930 U.S. Census - Do You Own a Radio?
285 -
Heathkit DX-60B Amateur Radio Transmitter Restoration
284 -
Lightning Protection Systems
283 -
Call Me KB3UON/AE - Amateur Extra License Exam Passed!
282 -
Therapeutic
Radio, by Marek Klemes
281 -
Domain Name Valuation per Online Estimators
280 -
Canadian
National Railways Radio Department
279 -
Neil Carlton's (VE3NCE) Radio Stamp Collection
278 -
Sputnik
Watch in Erie, Pennsylvania
277 - The Broken
U.S. Patent System
276 - 2017
Obamacare Cost for RF Cafe
275 - Is Your
Domain Being Blocked by a Country?
274 - Dead White Men
273 - Defeating AdBlock
Plus™
272 -
All Elements
Heavier Than Helium Are Metals?
271 - X-Microwave™
Block-Level Prototyping System
270 -
1st Mention of Electric Light in The New York Times
269 - The Shive
Wave Machine - Bell Telephone Labs
268 -
IEEE MTT-S Buys Rights to Smith Chart
267 -
'Drone' Registration with the FAA Begins Today
266 -
2016 Obamacare Cost for RF Cafe
265 -
How
I Handle Unsolicited Telephone Calls
264 - Not Many Know -40°F = -40°C
263 - September 11, 11 Years Later
262 - Rationalizing
Pi
261 - RF Cafe at IMS 2011
260 - CFLs - Will They
Really Save the Earth?
259 - CQ Engineers & Technicians:
QST a Great Resource
258 - How an Electrical
Engineer Spends "Vacation"
257 - Refusing to Suffer Fools
256 - The Resistor Cube Equivalent
Resistance Solution
255 - Websites - Wayback™ When
254 - "That's One Small Step
for Man..."
253 - RF Cafe Visits Beantown
252 - SR3BMUN (NUMB3RS in Reverse)
251 - The New [Smart] Colossus
250 - Zeptoeverything - It's
Mine
249 - RF Cafe's Greener Man-Cave
248 - AM/FM Under Siege
247 - The 10,000-Foot View
246 - Nowhere to Hide
245 - Of Free Software
244 - Science in Music
243 - Retiring Your Retirement
Plans?
242 - Choose Your Welfare System
241 - You Can't Choose Your
Relatives
240 - The Law of Unintended
Consequences
239 - Trial by Fire
238 - Too Clever by Half
237 - Teaching an Old Dog New
Tricks
236 -
OpenOffice.org - What's in It for You?
235 - The More Things Change...
234 - FireWire of a Different
Sort
233 - Exactly Why Are You Looking for a New Job?
232 - The Stamp of Approval
for Science
231 - All Hail the CFL
230 - Windowtalkers™
229 - Tax Freedom Day – An
Oxymoron
228 - Not Such A Smooth Operator
227 - A Rising Tide Lifts All
Boats
226 - WWVB
225 - Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
224 - RF Technology in Autos
223 - Electronic Voting
222 - Engineering °s
221 - RFCafe.EU's Raison d'Être
220 - Expensive Exposure
219 - It Happened When?
218 - What a Difference a Letter
(Word) Makes
217 - Hobbyists are Still the
Future
216 - Points of Inflection
215 - Disruptive Disruptions
214 - Ignorance is NOT Bliss
213 - U.S. Leads the Nuclear
Energy Pack
212 - Rules of Thumb
211 - My Astronaut Days of
Yore
210 - Domiciliary Hot Spots
209 - The American Spirit Alive
and Well
208 - Tempus Fugit
207 - Splitting Hairs Over
Precision
206 - Our Best Days are Before
Us
205 - Pure Genius
204 - H1B or RG30M Visas?
203 - WLAN in the Most Unlikely
Places
202 - MSI - A Trip Back
201 - Riddle Me This, Riddler
200 - The Good Old Days?
199 - Techno-Speak
198 - Mixed Signals
197 - Secure RFID. Or Not.
196 - Chinese Piracy. Arrrrr....
195 - A Step Back to Today
194 - Is Print Now Passé?
193 - Katrina: The Political
Mother of All Storms
192 - When is a Phone Not a
Phone?
191 - To RSS, or Not to RSS
190 - Ubiquitous GPS
189 - Caveat Emptor
188 - Researching the State
of R&D
187 - Petty Patents
186 - Technopolis c2005
185 - The More Things Change...
184 - Why You Shouldn't Take
a Mercury Thermometer in Your Carry-On
183 - The Next Assembly Line
Robot - Antifreeze
182 - A Reason to Question
Authority
181 - Why Google Won't Be Offering
Me a Job
180 - Entertain Me, But Don't
Insult Me
179 - RFID Could Save Your
Leg...or Kidney, or...
178 - Lorem Ispum, Et Cetera
177 - Thanks for Helping Us
Track You
176 - Of Enigma Machines and
Windtalkers
175 - One Man's Fast is Another
Man's Slow
174 - Voxel Searching
173 - Obliquity of the Equinoxes
172 - Gray Markets
171 - H1B Visas in 2004
170 - Why Dilbert's Tie Curls
Up
169 - Online Fraud Toppers
168 - ISO Stands for Nothing
- Just Ask Them
167 - Thank a Terrorist
166 - The 1st Professional
Human Computer
165 - Big Brother's Big Brother
164 - Ima Cum Laude. Areyoua
Cum Laude?
163 - Water for the Naive?
162 - So Quite, You Can Hear
a Snowflake Drop
161 - Well, They Say the Mind
is the First Thing to Go
160 - Now That's Cold!
159 - Does Your Employer Want
You Dead?
158 - Why You Get Bumped
157 - Good Luck
156 - Just an Old жена's Tale
155 - Top 300 Electronics Companies
for 2003
154 - Bug Sniffers
153 - Some Really Cool Speakers
152 - Geekdom Ain't so Bad
151 - Look Deep Into My Eyes
150 - Faster than This Speeding
Train, Superman?
149 - AWG Math
148 - Hand Me an 8-denarius
Nail, Please
147 - Fledgling Pilots
146 - Plastic, Heal Thyself
145 - BSOD on Cellphones
144 - Oh, to Be a Turtle(...and
not the Mutant Ninja type, either)
143 - The Mavens of Techno-Speak
142 - Computer Punch Cards
Making a Comeback?
141 - One Man's Summer is Another
Man's Winter
140 - Congressional Hypocrisy
- Synonymous Terms
139 - Magnetoresistance - Fodder
for Micro Hard Drives
138 - X-Prize - the Grown-Up's
Toy Rocket
137 - Mnemonic for VSWR and
Return Loss
136 - The Pre-Plastic Era -
Not So Long Ago
135 - H1Bs Filling the Void?
134 - The Origin of "I"
133 - Cockleburs on Your Tennies
132 - Really Big and Really
Small
131 - Will White LEDs Dethrone
the Incandescent Bulb?
130 - Wi-Fi in Your Cellphone
(WiFiFone?)
129 - A Side Order of Insect
Filth with Those Fries?
128 - So Near, and Yet So Far
127 - Don't Be a Human Lightning
Rod
126 - High Voltage Auto Systems
Coming to a Car Near You
125 - C60 - the Buckminsterfullerene
124 - A Cell Phone by Any Other
Name...
123 - EE Times 2002 Salary
Survey
122 - Insist on Cash When Russia
is the Customer
121 - Dirty Money
120 - The Marvel That is Carbon
119 - These Aren't My Pants
118 - A New Wind Chill Chart
117 - It's Baaaack....
116 - Mathematica - Summa Cum
Laude
115 - Entangled Qbits
114 - Lobster Compasses
113 - SETI Wants Your Computer
112 - Cray = Guess
111 - NASA's Got the Time
110 - Green Death
109 - Well, Duh, Reentries
Are HOT
108 - The n-Gun Salute
107 - Ctrl+Alt+Del That Varmint
106 - Ping Pong Balls in Space
105 - Dephlogisticating Phlogistons
104 - The NUMB3RS Behind Rock
Skipping
103 - Paint Brushes 101
102 - The Origin of the Name
"Wall Street"
101 - Project "Butthead Astronomer"
100 - Patents c2003
99 - We Don't Need No Stinking
Fab
98 - I've Got Your WMD Right
Here
97 - The Bottom Line Trumps
Security
96 - Silicon Implants
95 - We're All Freaks... In
Our Own Sort of Way
94 - Uncloaking Stealth
93 - Rossum's Universal Robots
92 - New Pick-Up Line: What's
Your Erdös Number?
91 - Big Brother's Along for
the Ride
90 - 2004 Salary Survey
89 - Microstrip Ice Detectors
88 - The Google Bomb
87 - Chipping Your Ride
86 - Snowflake Shape Predictability
85 - Daylight Savings Time Inanity
84 - Cool Wall Warts
83 - e-Cats
82 - Snowflake Shape Predictability
81 - Oak ID
80 - My Technology (and My Money)
Go to China
79 - Nowhere for Nukes to Hide
78 - Cheap GaN
77 - Amazing
76 - Does a "Fair" Coin Really
Exist?
75 - Carbon in the News Again
74 - The Doppler Toppler
73 - No Shortage of Oil
72 - The Good Trojan
71 - My Computer IS a Tennis
Shoe
70 - The Dumbing Down of America
69 - A Glue that Sticks to Nothing
68 - Bluetooth - Oops, I Just
Violated Their Trademark
67 - Lorem Ipsum - Not Really
66 - Daylight Saving Time -
Birth of a Burden
65 - pB-Free: The Craze Has
Begun
64 - Time Standard of the Dark
Ages: The H2O Clock
63 - À la tonalité, le temps
sera...
62 - The Twilight Zone - Defined
61 - Early Leakage Currents
60 - Paris Mean Time - Non
59 - Wreck Your Prius? Call
in the Hazmat Team
58 - Frozen Smoke
57 - Nowhere to Hide
56 - Galileo vs. GPS & GLONASS
55 - Gold Digging
54 - The 1st Computer Rodent
53 - Bottom Line Trumps Ideology
52 - These Boots Were Made for
Charging...
51 - Running Out of IP Addresses
50 - Unbreakable Code?
49 - Jack (and Jacques) Has
Become a Dull Boy
48 - Two Squeaky Clean Seals:
$200,000. Watching an Orca Eat Them: Priceless
47 - See-Through Semiconductors
46 - Stock Option Envy
45 - Shooting Crooked - On Purpose
44 - Wi-Fi Insecurity
43 - Theirs Choose Ph.Ds, Ours
Choose Baseball Caps Worn Backwards and Baggy Pants
42 - Notice to IEEE Insurance
Customers
41 - Hmmmm.. Maybe I Should
Test This Theory on My Two Cats...
40 - Escalating the Performance
of Escalators
39 - Real Plastic Money
38 - Do You Stutter? You're
in Good Company
37 - LED Taillights on the Way
36 - Earthshine on the Moon
35 - Hoax Hotline
34 - Microwave Oven Clocks Causing
Global Warming
33 - The First Photo
32 - Not This Year
31 - R.H.I.P. (Rank Has It's
Price)
30 - Hand Me the Raid
29 - Family-Friendly Wal-Mart
28 - A Better Photodetector
27 - Wow, We're Popular!
26 - No Wonder I Feel Poorer
25 - Terrorist Inerters Needed
24 - Memorial Day Tribute
23 - Not Sure I Like These Odds
22 - Tuning In Your Tennis Shoes
21 - A Cool Concept
20 - We Are Not Alone
19 - Solstice Trivia
18 - Patently Offensive
17 - Electronic Porpoises on
the Ocean's Horizon
16 - NAND Seems Logical
15 - We'll Take Him
14 - Better Re-Check Those Numbers
13 - My Mussel Glue Can Beats
Your Gorilla Glue
12 - Ala Doc's DeLorean
11 - Allies Not Required
10 - These Are a Serious Set
of Speakers
9 - U.S. Losing More Ground in
Academia
8 - Falling Through the Earth
7 - Ethernet, Meet Gasnet
6 - Blowing Bubbles at the ISS
5 - Pi Poetry
4 - Farewell and Adieu to Pioneer
10
3 - Piezoelectric Foam
2 - Top 100 R&D Companies
for 2002
1 - Untitled Collection
A huge collection of my 'Factoids' can be accessed from my 'Kirt's Cogitations'
table of contents.
Topical Smorgasbord, another manifestation of Factoids,
are be found on these pages:
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All pertain to topics that are related to the general engineering and science theme
of RF Cafe.
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