The Silicon Graybeard

In the World of the High Tech Redneck, the Graybeard is the old guy who earned his gray by making all the mistakes, and tries to keep the young 'uns from repeating them. Silicon Graybeard is my term for an old hardware engineer; a circuit designer. The focus of this blog is on doing things, from radio to home machine shops and making all kinds of things, along with comments from a retired radio engineer, that run from tech, science or space news to economics; from firearms to world events.

Special Pages

A Ham Radio Series 4 - Antennas, Tuners, and Analyzers

Tales From the Seattle Communist Enclave

A Lot of Sanity in 15 Minutes

As The Crew Dragon Test Flight and Work on Starship Continue

A Ham Radio Series 3 - HF Propagation Practicalities

A Ham Radio Series 2 - Radio Propagation Preface

Tiananmen Square - The End of Limited Freedoms in China

The SpaceX Falcon 9 at 10 Years Old

Shop Update

Getting Things Into Orbit is Hard

Another Day, Another Falcon 9 Launch. Almost

A Ham Radio Series 1 - Sporadic E Propagation

Not Much More That I Can Say

SpaceX Loses Starship SN4

A Little More on RF Power Safety and Ham Radio

The World Isn't Complying With Me

The Only Hurdle Left to Demo2 is the Weather

On Memorial Day 2020

A Question for You