Grid Beam Building System
I ran across a reference to “grid beam construction”. I didn’t know what it was. Now I do, and it’s kind of neat. Like a kind of Erector set technology for grownups.
(Heard about it from The Citizen Scientist)
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About Myself...
I'm Mark VandeWettering, husband, proud father of a U.S. Airman, technical director at Pixar Animation Studios, telescope maker, computer science and math afficianado, an Extra class radio amateur licensed as K6HX, and all around geek. I hope you enjoy my website. Twitters
- My twitter/blog feed seems wonky. New post re: dummy loads at http://tinyurl.com/7ktfy8
- New Blog Post on brainwagon: Why The Hell Would You Want A Ham Radio? http://timesurl.at/57942e
- New Blog Post on brainwagon: Zinc based audio oscillators http://timesurl.at/843894
- As usual, using my TH-D7A and my Arrow Antenna.
- Worked N6RSX and W6YX via the ISS tonight. (145.99 Mhz uplink 67 hz pl tone, 437.8 downlink).
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