IK1ZYW Labs

I've received a homebuilt oscilloscope from 1950's. Scuola Radio Elettra, an Italan company back then, was very popular and helped m...

Now that my interests are expanding to retrocomputing, I feel the need to read those C64 tapes. Which means that, somewhere, a tape/cassette...

Here they are, on my desk. It started in high-school in the 1990's. These books were a good alternative read for nerds, instead of those...

This Summer we spent 10 days driving around Greece in a rented car. Being high season I looked for cheaper alternatives to the big names. ...

I bought a Fairchild 7050 multimeter because it has slightly larger than usual Nixies. There was no indication of its state, but I could cou...

I bought this book at Marzaglia fair 2024. I have never owned a data book, so this was a chance to fill that gap. The index looks very inter...

If you are going to fly with Lufthansa this Summer 2024 you might be able to secure a free coffee onboard. I discovered this by chance and...

Both in 2023 and 2024 I had a strange encounter in the flea market area of Friedrichshafen Ham Messe. There is a guy from Far East (China, ...