TechnoJunkyard

Raspberry Pi based SDR Cyberdeck

  This Raspberry Pi based SDR Cyberdeck is unlike any other as it is based around RF situational awareness. (more…)

theSkyHook and theSkyHookx2x6 Product line arrives

theSkyHookx2x6 in action on Fiberglass Military Mast After our first successful run on theSkyHook and input from it’s many users.  We expanded the product line to add theSkyHookx2x6. (more…)

Amateur Radio Links Update

We updated several Amateur Radio Links.  Located under the Amateur Radio menu bar. (more…)

It’s that time of year!! Go-Kit Challenge! Dust them off bring them out, there will be prizes and who knows you could be the winner of the HAMBERG Cup.  Many categories including a new mobile HF rig this year.

Earth a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions Added a few new links to the Weather Room 4.0 links. Earth – Global Interactive Map of winds, weather and oceans Map offers an interactive moving map that can provide you with a good way to see our weather in action.

Weather Room 4.0 update

With the ramping up of the 2021 STORM season.  Additional links have been added to the Weather Room.  Latest being the FortWorth SkyWarn Radio Frequencies. This has been added to the other category on the page. Likely will add more pages as they are posted and listed during the season. https://technojunkyard.net/weather-room-4-0/

E-beam atomic-scale 3-D ‘sculpting’ could enable new quantum nanodevices

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Facebook Paying Social Media Users to Suspend Accounts Ahead of November Elections

Facebook is offering money to those who are willing to stop using Facebook and Instagram in the weeks before the November presidential election.

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Pentagon Offers Military Airwaves for 5G Wireless Networks

The Pentagon plans to free up a big chunk of its military airwaves in the U.S. for high-speed internet service, part of a broader push to get ahead of China in the deployment of 5G wireless technology.

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Mozilla lays off 250

Mozilla today announced a major restructuring of its commercial arm, the Mozilla Corporation, that will see about 250 employees lose their jobs and the shuttering of the organization’s operations in Taipei, Taiwan. This move comes after the organization already laid off about 70 employees earlier this year. The most recent numbers from 2018 put Mozilla at about 1,000 employees worldwide.

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COVID-19 Projections Want to see how your state lines up with COVID-19 Projections?

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Quick updates to Weather Room and Amateur Radio links.

WeatherRoom: Added a Realtime weather loop to the page.  Likely will update some links shortly as well.  It’s weather season so all the links there are quick to find I tend to update here.

Amateur Radio: Addition of a 10M Repeaters list.

Multiple government-backed hacking groups are exploiting a recently-patched vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange email servers.

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Happy Birthday Raspberry PI!! New Pricing Celebration

The Raspberry Pi is about to turn eight, having officially launched on February 29, 2012. To celebrate, the Raspberry Pi foundation is permanently lowering the price of a 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 B to $35, down from its usual list price of $45.

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