Here is a neat project I found at Matjaž Vidmar’s Website. The purpose of this project was to design an accurate radio altimeter with a dual-channel (quadrature) homodyne receiver. This new design ...

There is a certain charm to older electronics gear. Heavy metal chassis and obviously hand-wired harness can be a work of art even if they would be economically impractical for most modern gear.

Marked: "Signal Corps, U.S. Army / Airplane Radio Receiving Set / Type SCR 59 / Serial No. [blank] / Order No. W4076 / Made by Western Electric Co., Inc." Plate on ...