How I was placed in the "retarded" class in first grade. Many people have fond memories from school, and indeed I had friends there who I remember fondly and I enjoyed some of the experience. But that's not how it started. It started, of course, on the firs... Oct 26, 2025
The Counterpoise: The Other Half of Your Antenna My slide show from Pacificon on the Counterpoise. perens.com/static/Counterpoise.pdf... Oct 10, 2025
What's Wrong With ARDC? This is about a ham radio issue, and probably won't be comprehensible to non-hams. I mainly wrote it for other people who are experiencing the same issues, so that they will understand them better and... Aug 12, 2025
How to Burglarize a Forest River Trailer I haven't written this to facilitate burglary everywhere, but to complain about the poor security on my recently-purchased Forest River trailer. Locks sold in the United States are generally poor. If ... Jun 1, 2025
Mitigating Fading at the Antenna Here are slides from my new presentation Mitigating Fading at the Antenna. I will do a video, but you can understand the whole thing from the slides. perens.com/static/PerensFadingPacificon2.pdf... Oct 19, 2024
About the ARRL USD$1 Million Ransom Payment I am following up on the ARRL payment of USD$1M ransom to computer criminals. This would not happen with competent IT management. The defense is to have good off-site or off-line backups and to be abl... Aug 28, 2024
Radio Program / Podcast Friday I am on a well-known broadcast/podcast, I think Friday. If you are concerned that I haven't given someone credit or that history has been misrepresented: I was recorded for three hours, and what they ... May 15, 2024
Radio Antennas and Anti-Seize Compound Amateur Radio operators like to put antennas outside and in the air. Once there, we might not be able to reach them for a long time. But someday they will need to be serviced or disassembled. Not ever... May 14, 2024
Post-Open License: New Version The new version is here . This is still not the result of a lawyer, and shouldn't be used on your work.... Apr 1, 2024
Mr. Armaan Premjee and Richland Acquisitions Offer To Buy Your Land, But They Don't Mean It I received a two-page "offer" in the mail of $47K for some real-estate I own, with a contract ready to sign. It wasn't a real offer. I've done some analysis so that other folks can understand what's g... Mar 21, 2024
Post-Open License: First Draft At the link below is the first draft of the Post-Open License. This is not yet the product of a qualified attorney, and you shouldn't apply it to your own work yet. There isn't context for this licens... Mar 8, 2024
