Tom Filecco
email:
tf@well.com
tf@sdf.org
Last Update: 23JAN2024
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REM MY FIRST PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE, TS-1000, 1982
20 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD!"
30 END
email:
tf@well.com
tf@sdf.org
Last Update: 23JAN2024
Hobbyist Radio Communications Monitoring
73 DE W1WSO - FN31. Originally licensed as KA2UCP in 1984. Also previously held callsigns KB1LKV and K7WSO.
Paul Wade - W1GHZ. Paul is the current editor of the Microwavelengths column in QST, and the designer of cheap transverters to get you on the microwave bands. He recently updated his web site.
WA1MBA - Tom Williams. Amateur Radio microwave resources from WA1MBA.
GE M-PA 101 by Mark Cobbledick, KB4CVN/SK
Amateur Radio Links from the blog.
American Veterans Historical Museum
My small display
for the 2019 Memorial Day living history event sponsored by The Duffle Bag and
Associates.
For the event, I decided to portray a 1980's
Cold War Era U.S. Army Warrant Officer with the Army Material Command. The
above picture is me in front of a sculpture made from pieces of the Berlin
Wall.
Press release for my first military history display (1981):
I was 12 years old at the time.
In 2001, I reviewed the Icom IC-R3 receiver for Scanning USA Magazine.
Icom liked the article so much they referenced it in their advertising.
I still have an Icom R3 in the receiver collection, and maybe sometime
I'll have to do a retro article on it for the blog. The R3 is a nice
little unit, but NTSC video reception is of limited utility these
days, and the receiver has fairly high current requirements. With the
video screen running you only had a couple hours operating time.
Monitoring Spread Spectrum Communications - Scanning USA Magazine, September, 2005. I found a Transcrypt SC-1000 at what is now NEAR-Fest, and decided to see how easy it would be to hear it.
The Motorola DTR-410 Frequency Hopping Radio - Credited as "Tom Berkshire." Popular Communications Magazine, December, 2007.
One of my fellow makers/artists from my home region, Sophi Kravitz, put out a call 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.
Electronic Warfare for the Fourth Generation Practitioner - by SFC Marc J. O'Connor, USA (RET.) - Back in March, 2019 I was having this conversation with my friend Marc...