{"id":2331,"date":"2017-10-22T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/10\/22\/cliff-stoll-k7ta-has-the-knack-and-a-great-nova-video\/"},"modified":"2017-10-22T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T22:47:00","slug":"cliff-stoll-k7ta-has-the-knack-and-a-great-nova-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/10\/22\/cliff-stoll-k7ta-has-the-knack-and-a-great-nova-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Cliff Stoll &#8212; K7TA &#8212; Has THE KNACK. And a GREAT NOVA Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EcKxaq1FTac\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2017\/10\/19\/books-you-should-read-the-cuckoos-egg\/#more-277236\">Hack-A-Day had a piece on Cliff Stoll of &#8220;The Cuckoo&#8217;s Egg&#8221;<\/a> and &#8220;Silicon Snake Oil&#8221; fame. I read these books years ago. I included a quote from Cliff on page 45 of the SolderSmoke book (the quote seemed to foreshadow my aversion to SDR). <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>I didn&#8217;t know that NOVA produced an hour-long program on Stoll&#8217;s Cuckoo&#8217;s Egg adventures. It is really good. Many of those involved play themselves in the video. Very cool. See above. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>I checked Cliff&#8217;s QRZ.com page. We wrote several years ago that <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/cliff-stoll-definitely-has-knack-and-he.html\">Cliff has THE KNACK.<\/a> Note below his preference for thermatrons and the affection for Heathkits. Diagnosis confirmed. <\/b><\/p>\n<p> <b>From QRZ.com: <\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"Lucida Grande\", \"Lucida Sans\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;\"> <b> Hi gang! This is Cliff Stoll, K7TA<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"Lucida Grande\", \"Lucida Sans\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;\"> <b> <\/b><b style=\"font-size: 17.6px;\"> Way back in the Jurassic, I was licensed as WN2PSX, in Buffalo NY. Got my general ticket around 1967 as WB2PSX, and helped build ham radio stations at Hutch-Tech high school, University\/Buffalo, and University of Arizona. When I went to Tucson for grad school, I passed my extra ticket and snagged the call K7TA (back when this meant 20wpm cw). I held a first-class commercial ticket, which let me engineer at WBFO radio, but I don&#8217;t know if commercial licenses even exist anymore.<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"Lucida Grande\", \"Lucida Sans\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;\"> <b style=\"font-size: 17.6px;\"> I now live in Oakland California, and occasionally get on the cw lowbands with old heathkit gear &#8230; just rebuilt my novice NC-270 receiver with filaments that glow in the dark. Gotta restring my 40 meter dipole that came down in a windstorm. <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"Lucida Grande\", \"Lucida Sans\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;\"> <b> You can guess that I&#8217;m pretty much retired. Along the way, I&#8217;ve worked in FM radio, planetary physics, computing, writing, speaking, teaching, and math. Best way to reach me is through my website www.kleinbottle.com<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"Lucida Grande\", \"Lucida Sans\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;\"> <b> Warm wishes to all &#8212; 73&#8217;s,<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"Lucida Grande\", \"Lucida Sans\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;\"> <b>-Cliff<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"Lucida Grande\", \"Lucida Sans\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"Lucida Grande\", \"Lucida Sans\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;\"> <b>Info on Cliff&#8217;s latest gig: <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"> <span style=\"font-family: Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17.6px;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.berkeley.edu\/california-magazine\/spring-2016-war-stories\/how-berkeley-eccentric-beat-russians-and-then-made\">https:\/\/alumni.berkeley.edu\/california-magazine\/spring-2016-war-stories\/how-berkeley-eccentric-beat-russians-and-then-made<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hack-A-Day had a piece on Cliff Stoll of &#8220;The Cuckoo&#8217;s Egg&#8221; and &#8220;Silicon Snake Oil&#8221; fame. I read these books years ago. I included a quote from Cliff on page 45 of the SolderSmoke book (the quote seemed to foreshadow my aversion to SDR). I didn&#8217;t know that NOVA produced an hour-long program on Stoll&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/10\/22\/cliff-stoll-k7ta-has-the-knack-and-a-great-nova-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cliff Stoll &#8212; K7TA &#8212; Has THE KNACK. And a GREAT NOVA Video&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,144,149,103,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-computer-history","category-heathkits","category-knack-stories","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}