Can you really be an eclipse chaser if you’ve only actually chased one eclipse? My chased eclipse was August 1999 – south west England. Back in the mid 1980s I had a book of fascinating astronomical facts, it listed the dates of upcoming eclipses until the far-off Year 2000. I decided that I’d see that …
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Bugger.
I can’t honestly claim to to have been a massive fan of Terry’s writing – I’ve not read all (or much of it) – Robert Rankin was always more my cup of Tea (or pint of Large). That said I am a massive fan of the man himself and I’ve met many good people, some …
Interesting patterns
Doing a bit more snooping around the radio spectrum with the RTLSDR (My HackRF should be here tomorrow!) I spotted these patterns in the transmitted signals from DAB stations. I’m fairly sure these are not just moiré patterns. I expect they probably tell you something about the multiplexing of the signals in the transmission.
RTLSDR + MatLab 2014b
Horribly geeky post, more for my own information than anything. Might help others. After installing MatLab 2014b on OSX, I thought it might be fun to see if it’ll work with an RTLSDR dongle – if you’ve a license you can download a driver package for the MatLab communication toolbox from Mathworks (No, I’ll not …