Collins discone antenna

The other day, while reading Mastodon—which is kind of like Twitter for nerds—I came across a couple of videos worthy of sharing here.

The scariest chart in electrical engineering

Veritasium applies his tech explaining skills to one of the most misunderstood, but useful, design aids in amateur radio.

Whole Milk: Deep Machine Learning CW decoding demo on Windows

This is a demo of a new CW decoding application offering real-time full-band decoding of CW using deep-learning models and GPU- and NPU-accelerated waterfall and ML inference. The developer claims that, with a modern computer, it can decode all contest bands in parallel, and that there is no artificial limit on number of attached receivers.

And, since I always post three videos at a time, here’s a third that’s been lingering in a tab on my browser for a couple of weeks now.

The giant Collins HF discone antenna at the Titan Missile Museum

This is really an incredible antenna, and you really can drive right up to it and hook your rig to it. I like that KB9RLW explains how discones work in addition to talking about the giant discone antenna.