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 26 – RF Noise and Coping With It

BATFE Does Friday Drop on Proposed “Ghost Gun” Rules

Musk: “Might try to refly SN15 soon”

Getting NASA Out of the 'Getting There' Business

Starship SN15 Flies, Sticks The Landing and Still Standing

Bank of America Says "Transitory Hyperinflation" Is Coming

NASA Sued Over Awarding Human Landing System Contract to SpaceX

A Ham Radio Series 25 – An RF Safety Worksheet

The War on Meat

Sometime in the Next Year

SLS Core Stage Now In the VAB on the Kennedy Space Center

Farewell and RIP Michael Collins

After Successful Static Test, Elon Says SN15 to Launch “Later This Week”

Monday Got Away From Me

Licensed Hams - A New Rule on May 3rd

NASA's Getting What It Wanted - Independent, Reliable Access to Space

Earth Day Addendum for the Climate Change Peeps You Know

Earth Day 2021