:: ham and eggs from frgo ::

The RF amplifier will work with the tetrode tube GU-84b. On the left you see the anode voltage transformer - that beast delivers 2 500 Volts at 2 Amperes in continuous service. Current work is to program the controller that handles the operation of the power supply. The controller is based on the AVR microcontroller ATmega16 - a very flexible 8 bit CPU that can be programmed in C language using the GNU C compiler gcc in its avr-gcc incarnation ...  All this is done on a MacBookPro using publicly available tools on Mac OS X (10.5.2 currently). It's pure fun - I can tell you. You should try it one day... Oh, btw, the transformer weighs a woppy 52 kg.  Building the cabinet for the power supply is just about to be completed - and was not an easy task. But hey, it's just a hobby ... Now for the details - An AVR code excerpt: // ---------------------------------------------------- // MAIN // --------------------------

Aloha! Wow - I always refused to have a blog. Now, well, here it is - my own blog. I don't know yet how frequently I will post or what the posts will be about. So, this is the all-in-one-you-must-have-a-blog first post. There's some other places I can be found:  USENET newsgroup comp.lang.lisp - watch out for posts from "frgo". On the ether: I enjoy doing Ham Radio. If you listen carefully on the 20m band (14.000,00 kHz to 14.350,00 kHz) you might hear me under my callsign DG1SBG. I am also QRV on 145.450 MHz in the VHF band in FM. You have to be close to my locator JN48rn though to hear me - it's VHF after all. Hope to CU! Yours truly - frgo.