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Lee Jennings
Personal blog · zl2al.com/bloghardwarehistory
Lee Jennings writes Amateur Radio ZL2AL, a personal blog at zl2al.com about hardware and history. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this personal blog by a ham radio operator (ZL2AL) about his amateur radio adventures and message relaying. It also has a post on the Avro VZ-9 Avrocar flying saucer.
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What Hacker News says?
My business partner's father (ZL2AL) passed last year and I know he'd be chuffed to see all this HAM talk on HN :-) He demoed the process to me last time I saw him (back in New Zealand). It was amazing to see the speed with which the he (and the other operators) could relay messages around the world. He wrote a bit about his many adventures on his blog ( http://www.zl2al.com/ ). I guess there may even be other HAM o…
Comment linking /
on “American Red Cross Asks for Ham Radio Operators for Puerto Rico Relief Effort”Submitted IBM 704 Scientific Computer as a story · 100 points
HN discussionSome further info on the VZ-9 Avrocar referenced in the article: http://www.zl2al.com/blog/the-avro-flying-saucer
Comment linking /blog/the-avro-flying-saucer
on “US Air Force’s 1950s supersonic flying saucer declassified”Submitted The 1954 IBM 704 Scientific Computer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The iKeypad as a story · 1 points
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