{"id":7289,"date":"2010-07-31T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/07\/31\/from-italy-to-virginia-move-update\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:40:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:40:50","slug":"from-italy-to-virginia-move-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/07\/31\/from-italy-to-virginia-move-update\/","title":{"rendered":"From Italy to Virginia: Move update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We’re still in a temporary apartment, waiting to move into our new place. The new QTH has some good tall trees suitable for wire antenna support. I have my eye on a room for the shack. <\/p>\n

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Not much radio activity this summer. I do have my Sony shortwave receiver with me — I’ve been listening to 75 meter AM. My Heathkit VF-1\/DX60 combo will be coming out of storage, so I may soon be joining in. <\/div>\n
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My kids got I-phones and are having a lot of fun with them. As we drive along they are in multimedia contact with friends back in Italy (and elsewhere), texting, e-mailing, Facebooking, video-texting, etc. The I-phone 4 is an amazing piece of gear. <\/div>\n
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Summer reading: I kind of got bogged down in “Is God a Mathematician?” by Mario Livio. Good book, but as he gets deeper into it you really need to focus — I’ll get back to that when things settle down. I’m currently reading “Why does E=MC^2″by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw. I was attracted to the book because it promises to discuss the role of special relativity in things like toroidal tranformers. (There is a section called “Einstein in the Transformer in SolderSmoke — The Book.”) I like the authors’ approach to math: they actually explain where the formula for gamma in special relativity comes from. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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