It's a Keyzermas Miracle!

Merry Keyzermas, 2022! Jeff Keyzer of Mightohm.com joins the show once again.

• Jeff has been at his place in Seattle since 2018
• Previously when he was in Redmond, he put his antenna up in the trees
• This year Jeff set up antennas at his new place
• New things in Amateur radio, SDRs
• ICOM IC705 portable
• Sunspot cycles impact how far you can communicate
• 5-10 watts in the backyard
• Taking ham radio setup camping
• Crater lake
• Goldeneye antenna coming out of a lake (Aricibo, now busted)
• Cape Disappointment
• Parks on the Air
• "2022...which is this year"
• Long Beach Washington kite festival
• Jeff put an antenna on a kite
• Doers vs talking in amateur radio
• FT8 mode
• QRZ.com
• IC7300 brought people back
• Alan Wolke YouTube channel
• Jeff hasn't been doing much consulting
• Kit business gangbusters because of Ukraine
• Atmel DIP parts are easier to get than other Atmel parts (but still not easy)
• Eurorack companies closing
• Test equipment upgrade
• 8753D
• Agilent took down legacy resources
• Fixing test equipment as a way to learn
• 53310A
• Can't just get a piece of test equipment on a whim
• GPS connected to MDA can get parts per billion (!)
• Plot frequency vs time
• Saluki
• Fusion news
• Hotplate vs oven for reflow
• Making generated art (couldn't pass up the Clark Griswold reference, sorry)