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From the Vaults: American Roads

From the Vaults:  American Roads        Among the many topics covered by Simon Winchester in his book The Men Who United the States (2013, Harper-Perennial Books), one that fascinated me a lot was the history of American roads.  Winchester notes that at the turn of the nineteenth century, 96 percent of travel in America was […]

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MSP Driving Simulator comes to OASD

Michigan State Police Community Service Officer Geno Basanese of the Wakefield MSP Post (center) does a test run with the driving simulator with (l-r) Isaiah Beck, Branden Betcher and Ryan Preiss.  Trooper Basanese spent most of Friday March 11, 2021 guiding small groups of Ontonagon Area Schools students through the simulator’s programs that demonstrate the hazards of […]

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Need a cheap EAS system for your station?

We have found ourselves with a piece of surplus equipment, includes manual, set up CD and unit.  It no longer fits our signal chain and we hate the idea of having another dust catcher in the studio.  It is a TRILITHIC EASy PLUS EAS SYSTEM CONTROLLER – it works but we had to take this […]

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AstroCal – March 2022

       If evening planetary gazing is your thing, March is going to be a big disappointment to you.  There are no naked eye planets visible in the evening sky this month.  Uranus will be in the western sky and will be visible with binoculars or a small telescope about an hour after sunset.  If the […]

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