Phil Karn, KA9Q (original) (raw)
Hi! I am Phil Karn, KA9Q. Welcome to my personal home page!
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ISEE-3/ICE Spacecraft Telemetry decoded!
Quotes of the Day:
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens. --Friedrich Schiller
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. --Susan B Anthony
We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy changes. By basically adopting changes like making encryption a universal standard ‐ where all communications are encrypted by default ‐ we can end mass surveillance not just in the United States but around the world. --Edward Snowden, quoted inWired Magazine.
If you haven't tested it, it doesn't work --Klein Gilhousen, Qualcomm
It isn't faith that makes good science, Mr. Klaatu, it's curiosity --Professor Barnhart, The Day The Earth Stood Still
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. --Victor J. Stenger
I'll believe that corporations are people when Texas executes one. -- bumper sticker
Cancer is nature's way of reminding us just how amazing it is that multicellular life ever evolved in the first place. -- me
The most important thing I got from my engineering education was an understanding of the difference between what's impossible and what merely hasn't been done yet. -- me
The best thing you can do for your mental health is to stop watching the TV news. --me
My standing question to those (mainly religious fundamentalists) who deny evolution, the backbone of modern biology:
Just who the hell are YOU to tell your god how he can and can't run his universe?
How to dual-home servers on U-verse
Comments to NTSB on the grounding of aircraft DC power system neutrals
Qualcomm Stuff
Internet activities
- How to dual-home servers on U-verse (new Apr 2013)
- Comments on AT&T's U-verse service
- The KA9Q NOS TCP/IP Package
- Internet Privacy and Security
- Foundation Internet Papers
- Two open letters to Perftech, Inc:letter 1 - letter 2. This company makes devices that ISPs use to modify web pages from third parties. This is one of the most outrageous violations of Network Neutrality (not to mention the Internet End-to-End model) I've ever seen. (12 December 2007)
- Using the AirPrime 5220 Card on Verizon BroadbandAccess under Linux
- Times-Warner Road Runner Cable Modem Service
- IETF PILC LINK: Advice to Subnetwork Designers
Amateur Radio Digital Communications
BPSK1000 telemetry format for the ARISSat-1 satellite
Demodulator/decoder source code - Takes sound card audio and produces HDLC frames. This is my part of the project.
ARISSat telemetry ground station software archive - This is probably where you want to go if you're looking for a complete program to decode the ARISSat-1 telemetry.
Political Stuff
- Anybody want to know who invented the term "enhanced interrogation"? Clickhere.
- Why I hate Microsoft: worms and viruses
- 9th Circuit Affirms Bernstein ruling: crypto export rules are unconstitutional!
- Oppose the flag-burning amendment!
- The "No Mental Theft" Act
- The Applied Cryptography export case
- The Patent Office is out of control!
Pseudoscience
- Debunking crackpots and pseudo-science
- The Apollo "hoax"(Sept 2009)
- Analysis of "xMax" technology (updated 1 October 2009)
- A review of one of xG's patents (added 16 May 2007)
- Comments on lab test of xMax (added 4 June 2007)
- Comments on Stu Schwartz's evaluation of xMax (added 6 June 2007)
- An analysis of xG's claim that xMax uses 3,000,000 times less power than WiFi (revised 29 June 2007)
- The VMSK Delusion A thorough debunking of the bogus modulation scheme developed by Harold Walker. (updated 20 March 2007)
Miscellaneous
- Comments to NTSB on the grounding of aircraft DC power system neutrals
- My Photovoltaic Power System
- My software packages and utilities
- My EV-1 (electric car) pages
- Archiveof my papers, talks, publications and interviews
- Links to miscellaneous and fun Stuff (updated 8 March 2008)
- Some Totally Amazing Quotes (Updated 24 January 2009)
- And some fairly good ones (Updated 3 October 2009)
- Some photos of me
- Revenge On A Telemarketing Scam
- Solving NPR's Sunday Morning Puzzles with Perl
Last updated: 1 December 2014