Author: W1SEG
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About Bill Churchill AA1O (SK)
This story focuses on Bill’s life as a ham and how I got to know him.
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In the shack category intro post
My rig is a tricked-out Elecraft K3 (s/n 287) with KPA500 amp and KAT500 tuner. This wonderful gear came from the estate of old friend Bill Churchill AA1O (SK). I’m still figuring out how everything works! More details coming soon…
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quote Low interfaces
Minimize functional interfaces between complex pieces of hardware.—George M. Low
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quote Taylor community
It was really phenomenal to see this computer become a medium that stimulated the formation of a human community.—Robert Taylor
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quote Bainbridge automation
By taking away the easy parts of their task, automation can make the difficult parts of the human operator’s task more difficult.—Lisanne Bainbridge
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quote Berger mindset
The right mindset for an engineer is to approach each problem as a puzzle, finding joy in the discovery of a solution. God bless them. For some of us non-engineers, a life of unending problems sounds pretty terrifying. Rocket science is not for us.—Eric Berger
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quote EM candle
The civilization that we have is this very small candle in a vast darkness, and we must do everything possible to ensure that candle does not go out.—Elon Musk
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quote Turing
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.—Alan Turing
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quote Berger engineer
An engineer’s life consists of staring down one technical problem after another, fixing this or modifying that, in an interminable quest to make something work. Sometimes failure necessitates a wholesale redesign of a system. Then the whole process repeats itself: Design. Build. Test. Fix. Retest. Redesign. Retest. And so on. All in the hope that,…