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Re: Owen Duffys blog closed
Rick,
I agree with your comment. Owen Duffy has the copyright to all material he created on his site. The Wayback machine may have scraped it but that does not affect his copyright.
Anyone
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Roger Need
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I sorry to say Owen has responded with the following.
"Hello Mikek,
Thanks for your kind words.
I have made a decision to close the site.
There are a lot of factors at play, but essentially I
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Mikek
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Re: Owen Duffys blog closed
I sent an email to a good address as of 12-2024 telling him about this discussion and asking if someone else could host the site.
Hosting is not something I can do, but I would make a donation if/when
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Mikek
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As far as I know, he¡¯s still alive. Just took down his web content.
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Jim Lux
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Re: Owen Duffys blog closed
Actually he has...? Look at the last entry in the wayback machine...? I saw something there, but can no longer locate it... It was the last entry...
73, and thanks,
Dave
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Dave (NK7Z)
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I agree that a resource like Owen Duffy's should be preserved. Here's what he called "The fine print" on his blog. Note the next-to-last line about copyright.
"The fine print
The information
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Doug Constance - W6DDC
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Agreed. Does anyone know how to get in touch with Owen Duffy or his estate? we should get permission before contributing any data.
Mike N2MS
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Mike N2MS
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If anyone is willing to do the work, please raise your hand. Obvious first step is to get his permission. In that context of a contact, if here wants to just get out of supporting the site, I am
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Lester Veenstra
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Has Owen expressed any opinion on someone resurrecting his content?
He's the copyright owner. It' s his choice on whether or not this should be
brought back.
As a simple courtesy, before you decide
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Rick Murphy
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I now own and can host RFDUFFY.com
Who will step up and recreate the site from Duffy's orginal?
Lester B Veenstra K1YCM M?YCM W8YCM 6Y6Y W8YCM/6Y 6Y8LV (Reformed USNSG
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Lester Veenstra
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Re: Owen Duffys blog closed
I am willing to get and support a site but I do not have the web HTML etc skills to resurrect his site. Who can and will?
Lester B Veenstra K1YCM M?YCM W8YCM 6Y6Y W8YCM/6Y 6Y8LV (Reformed
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Lester Veenstra
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If I were to get a suitable URL; would anyone be willing to reconstruct his site as a project?
Lester B Veenstra K1YCM M?YCM W8YCM 6Y6Y W8YCM/6Y 6Y8LV (Reformed USNSG
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Lester Veenstra
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Re: 1.2.40 strange displayed S11 Smith value
Only in some directions, average. The anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is about 1 part in 1E5.
(and the temperature you radiate to in a blackbody sense only partly accounts for
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Jim Lux
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Re: Owen Duffys blog closed
Indeed, hopefully temporary.? But meanwhile it seems that most posts are available via the web archive at archive.orgSent from my Galaxy
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Andrew Love
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I am so sorry to hear this. I made a lot of use of Owen's online calculators and he reviewed a couple of projects I'd been working on (favourably). Sometimes Owen would pick up on posts I'd made to
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Mike
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Re: test board, how to use
As the reference plan is now at the test board level, a set of OSL terminations are required for calibration (DIY, see below). Jumpers are also useful. I have extensively used this board for crystals
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F6EGK - Jean-Roger
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Here is another YouTube story...
A friend asked me to help him diagnose an antenna problem he was having, high SWR at any power over around 200 watts, on some relatively new antenna he had installed
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Dave (NK7Z)
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Re: 1.2.40 strange displayed S11 Smith value
I suspect that it will instead catch grime and wear particles, especially in the crevices of the female sockets, making a nice grinding compound to cause unnecessary wear on your connectors.
Here is
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Donald S Brant Jr
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Re: test board, how to use
I was advised by email that The Test Board from nanovna.com has some extra connections that are not on the SDR Kits board.
Rows C, D & E are the same but A/B and F/G have some additional connected
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Roger Need
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Re: Owen Duffys blog closed
I was not aware that Owen discontinued his website. I enjoyed his insights. A great loss. I hope he is OK.
You can find owenduffy.net, and its predecessor vk1od.net, on the Internet Archive,
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Art Greenberg
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