Tom Filecco

One from the Sterilite vaults

Posted on September 5, 2021 by Tom Filecco

Was going through some storage containers, and found some old pictures from the late 1990s, including this one of a Skytouch public satellite phone. I believe I took it with a disposable 35mm camera in New Hampshire, around October, 1999. This might have been on the top of Mt. Washington, or at the Cog Railway Base Camp, but I don’t recall exactly.

amateur radio

GE M-PA101 Guide

Posted on August 14, 2021August 14, 2021 by Tom Filecco

The excellent series by the late Mark Cobbledick KB4CVN/SK.

m-pa101_part-1_introduction

m-pa101_part-2_componets-and-assemblies

m-pa101_part-3_what-to-look-for

m-pa101_part-4_essential-items

m-pa101_part-5_understanding-and-using-firmware

m-pa101_part-6_mother-and-daughter

m-pa101_part-7_some-assembly-might-be-required

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Gopherspace

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Tom Filecco

After reading a post at Computers Are Bad, and rediscovering that Gopher is still up and running in some places, I decided to set up a small Gopher site on SDF.

gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/tf/

military history, World War II

Visit to Ft. Custis/Cape Charles Air Force Station, VA

Posted on June 13, 2021June 13, 2021 by Tom Filecco

Visit to Ft. Custis/Cape Charles Air Force Station, VA

military history

Visit to AMC Museum, Dover, DE

Posted on June 13, 2021 by Tom Filecco

Visit to AMC Museum, Dover, DE

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Hamfest This Saturday In Connecticut

Posted on March 30, 2021 by Tom Filecco

https://www.vrcmct.org/ This Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 the Vintage Radio and Communications Museum is having their first swap meet of the season. It is also the first hamfest in the state since COVID. Admission is free, so you should stop by and visit. A seller space is only $10, so if you have some excess radio […]
Hamfest This Saturday In Connecticut

I’ll be there tailgating. Will monitor 146.52 simplex. 73 DE W1WSO

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Patrick asks: “Was James Bond a ham radio operator and shortwave listener?” | The SWLing Post

Posted on January 2, 2021 by Tom Filecco

https://swling.com/blog/2021/01/patrick-asks-was-james-bond-a-ham-radio-operator-and-shortwave-listener/

cyberpunk

Cyberpunk Film Festival

Posted on August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 by Tom Filecco

One of my fellow makers/artists from my home region, Sophi Kravitz, put out a call last week for participants to do a quick short video for her team’s entry into HOPE 2020’s Cyberpunk Film Festival. Never did a film before, so I cleaned up the workbench to make it a presentable background, put on a “costume”, and said a few words they gave me in front of my phone’s camera.

We didn’t win, but it was still pretty fun.