 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. 311 - The Longitude Problem 310 - Little Known Facts About Dr. Robert M. Page 309 - Radio Industry Marks 20th Anniversary - Harrisburg Telegraph c1940 308 - Last Chance to Buy a New Radio - Harrisburg Telegraph c1942 307 - Replacing the Dial Cord in a Realistic Patrolman−50 Radio 306 - Hearing Microwaves - It's All in Your Head 305 - Insider $$$tock Trading at Your Company 304 - Open Radio Shack Sighted in Ashtabula, Ohio 303 - Sonic Booms, Fallout, Satellites, and the Moon 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
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