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antigrav_kids

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Hamilton Carter has worked in JavaScript visualization of data driven GIS applications since 2010. Among the apps that he cut his teeth on were an APRS plane flight tracker that was utilized by the FAA to investigate a midair colision and an amateur radio satellite orbit tracker used by the Tesla Wardenclyffe sattelite ham radio team to determine if their radios would be able to see individual amateur radio satellites as they traversed the New York City skyline with respect to a balcony on the 12 floor of the New Yorker hotel, Tesla's last home.

Recently, Hamilton has worked with Hamie Carter to develop Cesium JS applications that map properties of the ionoshphere using NOAA data from both the COSMIC-2 satellite constellation and the NOAA Gloctec ionosphere model. These are used by the amateur, (ham), radio community at large. In addition, Hamie and Hamilton use the apps to study how ionospheric conditions effect their contacts, (QSOs), with other hams, having conversed via Morse code with Sweden, Argentina, and Japan from San Francisco using only five Watts of power.

With many industries, including the millitary and high speed stock traders, rekindling an interest in global high frequency radio communications via the ionosphere, Hamilton continues to create applications that make it easier to analyze the feasability of these kinds of communications with respect to geographical location, (both in remote and urban areas), and ionospheric conditions.

In his spare time, Hamilton, the author of a Springer book about functional verification of digital chips, is busy preaparing a book about O.G. Villard, an engineer who experimented with chemically modifying the ionosphere via missile launches to make the F2 layer suitable for nighttime communications; and Michael Gladych a World War II pilot, Boeing personal relations executive, CIA operative, and author of articles about Villard and a number of other individuals who sponsored work that ultimately led to the detectcion of the HIggs boson, the mediator of the gravitational force.

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    Again I'm heartened that it references TTB rather than Woodward. Should be fun to watch this version of the story.

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    It took long enough to get in the groove with Gas Town that I'm a tiny but fraught about considering Gas City. Here's hoping the switch will be smooth for me.

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    I wonder if this is Google's answer to Beads?

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    Forgot, use wired headphones or speaker. Bluetooth delay wreaks havoc adding delays to Morse code sidetones. Like trying to learn piano with delay between tapping key and hearing t…

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    The 15 year old here used gas town to build a Simon game, but for learning Morse code. It's intended for phones. Still needs documentation touched up a bit. Scroll the game panel u…